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Object Type
Museum number: 1910,0212.56
Description: Portrait of Marguerite de France, Duchesse de Savoie; head and shoulders turned slightly to left, looking to front, wearing a wimple (head-dress) Black chalk, with red chalk
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Production date: 1559
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Dimensions: Height: 310 millimetres; Width: 226 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Étienne Moreau-Nélaton: 'Crayons François de la Collection de M.G. Salting', no. 4. The Duchess was the fourth daughter of François I (1523-1574). She married Philibert Emmanuel, Duc de Savoië in 1559. Six earlier portraits of her are in the Musée Condé. A copy by another hand after this portrait is also in the British Museum (see 1859,0514.272). The drawing can be dated precisely to 1559 because Marguerite is shown wearing the mourning dress that she adopted after the death of her brother Henri II in that year. Since she left court soon after his funeral, this portrait must have been made in that brief period.
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Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1983 Jul-Nov, London, V&A, 'Portrait Miniatures', (ex cat.)
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Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Catherine de' Medici, Queen and Regent of France; Previous owner/ex-collection: Christina of Lorraine; Previous owner/ex-collection: Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Previous owner/ex-collection: Ignazio Enrico Hugford; Previous owner/ex-collection: John Bouverie; Previous owner/ex-collection: Christopher Hervey; Previous owner/ex-collection: Elizabeth Bouverie; Previous owner/ex-collection: Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham; Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Gerard Noel Noel
Acquisition date: 1910
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1910,0212.56

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