print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1927,1008.133
- Description
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Louis XIII, seated on a throne, surrounded by noblemen, receives the prévôt des marchand and the échevins of Paris after the capture of La Rochelle; at r, window opening onto a landscape with an army marching; frontispiece to 'Eloges et discours sur la Triomphante Réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris, après la réduction de la Rochelle' (Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1629, in fol). 1629
Etching
- Production date
- 1629
- Dimensions
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Height: 317 millimetres (From two sheets)
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Width: 234 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Although the inscription only says 'Bosse In.', it is likely that the artist etched the whole scene while the portraits were engraved by Melchior Tavernier and/or Pierre Firens (exhib. cat. 'Abraham Bosse, savant graveur' (Paris & Tours, 2004), No.49).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Louis XIII receiving the representant of the merchants of Paris 1628 (23 December)
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Eloges et discours sur la Triomphante Réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris, après la réduction de la Rochelle (1629)
- Acquisition date
- 1927
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1927,1008.133
