print
- Museum number
- 1871,1209.1181
- Title
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Object: Le Cardinal Hippolyte de Médicis
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Series: Musée Royal
- Description
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Portrait of Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici, after Titian; half-length, turned to the left, wearing a plumed cap and holding a hunting spear in his right hand and a sword in his left. c.1816/21
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1816-1821 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 249 millimetres
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Width: 182 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Engraved for H. Laurent's 'Le Musée Royal', a series of prints reproducing paintings from the Louvre and published in 1816-21 (or 1817/24 ?). For further comment see 1853,1008.115.
Titian's "Portrait of Ippolito de' Medici" was taken to France by Napoleon and was displayed in the Louvre prior to its return to Italy.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,1209.1181