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Object Type
Museum number: 1891,0414.1225
Title: Object: L'Echange des deux Reines; Series: La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg
Description: Plate 17: The Exchange of the Two Princesses in Hendaye in the Basque Provinces on the border between France and Spain; allegorical scene with Anne of Austria and Elizabeth of Bourbon standing on a pontoon bridge holding hands; the young Elizabeth (as future wife of Philip IV of Spain) standing at right, seen in profile in front of the female personification of Spain; Anne (as future wife of Louis XIII) standing at left with the female personification of France; a male personification of the River Bidassoa with a triton in lower right; putti and a female personification with a cornucopia (Felicity) above; after Peter Paul Rubens. c.1707-1710
Producer name: After: Peter Paul Rubens; Print made by: Benoît Audran I; Intermediary draughtsman: Jean Marc Nattier; Published by: Gaspard Duchange
School/style: French; Flemish
Production date: 1707-1710 (c.)
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 504 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 353 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one from a series of twenty-four, for another impression of this plate (in an album) see Hh,6.18. For comment on the series see Hh,6.2. After the painting now in Paris, in the Musée du Louvre, inv.no.1782.
Bibliographic references: Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (220.19.17); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (9) (under Audran)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: allegory/personification; politics
Associated names: Associated with: Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France; Representation of: Elizabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Spain; Representation of: Anne of Austria, Queen and Regent of France
Associated places: Associated with: France; Associated with: Spain; Associated with: River Bidassoa
Associated events: Associated Event: Exchange of the princesses 1615 (9 November)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1891
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1891,0414.1225

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