print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1877,0811.814
Description: Portrait-medallion of Marie de Medici, bust-length, framed within branches of tree, from which flourish lilies containing half-length portraits of her children, Louis XIII of France, Henrietta Maria, Elisabeth, Gaston of Orléans, and Christine Marie of Savoy; Fame and Fortune watering the tree in lower corners; after Nicolaas van der Horst; illustration to Jean Puget de la Serre's "Histoire Curieuse de tout ce qui c'est passé a l'Entree de la Reyne Mere du Roy Treschrestien dans les Villes des Pays Bas" (Antwerp: Moretus, 1632) Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Lucas Vorsterman I; After: Nicolaas van der Horst; Published by: Balthasar Moretus I
School/style: Flemish
Production date: 1632 (c.)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 245 millimetres; Width: 164 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The copper-plate and the drawing by Nicolaas van der Horst (inv.no.372) are in Antwerp. For impressions of the title-page of the same publication see also 1858,0417.1253 and 1863,0808.122.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (183)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: genealogy; allegory/personification
Associated names: Illustration to: Jean Puget de La Serre; Portrait of: Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France; Representation of: Fame; Representation of: Tyche/Fortuna; Portrait of: Elizabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Spain; Portrait of: Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I; Portrait of: Louis XIII, King of France and Navarre; Portrait of: Gaston, Duke of Orléans and Prince of Dombes; Portrait of: Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Rev John Burleigh James (L.1425); Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale March - May 1877/2247); Purchased through: Goupil
Acquisition date: 1877
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1877,0811.814

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