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Object Type
Museum number: 1891,0414.1226
Title: Object: La Félicité de la Regence; Series: La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg
Description: Plate 18: The Felicity of the Regency; Marie de' Medici pictured as the personification of Justice enthroned with a pair of scales in her hands, flanked by Cupid and Minerva, on the left Prudence and Abundance and on the right Time bringing France before the Queen; four putti in foreground symbolizing the Arts and trampling the Vices (Envy, Ignorance and Vice ); two Fames blowing trumpets in the upper part; after Peter Paul Rubens. 1704 Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: Peter Paul Rubens; Print made by: Bernard Picart; Intermediary draughtsman: Jean Marc Nattier; Published by: Jean Marc Nattier
School/style: French; Flemish
Production date: 1704
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 498 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 352 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,6.19. For a proof impression see 1982,U.1311. For comment on the series see Hh,6.2. After the painting now in Paris, in the Musée du Louvre, inv.no.1783.
Bibliographic references: Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (220.19.18); Le Blanc 1854-89 / Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes 1550-1820 (496) (under Picart)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: allegory/personification; politics; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France; Representation of: Athena/Minerva; Representation of: Eros/Cupid; Representation of: Time; Representation of: Vices
Associated places: Associated with: France
Associated events: Associated Event: Regency of Marie de' Medici 1610-1617
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1891
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1891,0414.1226

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