print
- Museum number
- 1982,U.1311
- Title
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Object: La Félicité de la Regence
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Series: La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg
- Description
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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; finished state, before letter; after Peter Paul Rubens. 1704
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1704
- Dimensions
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Height: 500 millimetres
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Width: 354 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of twenty-four, for impressions of the lettered state of this plate see Hh,6.19 (in an album) and 1891,0414.1226.
For comment on the series see Hh,6.2.
After the painting now in Paris, in the Musée du Louvre, inv.no.1783.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Regency of Marie de' Medici 1610-1617
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1982
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1982,U.1311
