print
- Museum number
- Hh,6.16
- Title
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Object: Le Gouvernement de la Reine
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Series: La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg
- Description
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Plate 15: Allegory of the Reign of Marie de' Medici or The Council of the Gods; the Olympian gods gathered on clouds including Jupiter and Juno enthroned at right and presiding an assembly, Juno placing a yoke on two doves just like Cupid (Spain and France?), Saturn and Mercury standing behind the couple, Concord and Peace at left, Pan seen from behind reclining at centre right, Minerva and Apollo in central foreground, Mars and Venus on clouds at left, Aurora in her chariot in the distance in top left; five vices (Discord, Fury, Fraud, Vice, Envy?) in left foreground; from an album containing twenty-five engravings; trimmed and pasted onto a sheet, surrounded by double borderline in pen and ink; after Peter Paul Rubens. 1707
Etching and Engraving
- Production date
- 1707
- Dimensions
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Height: 488 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 816 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of twenty-four engravings bound in an album, for comment see Hh,6.2. For another impression of this plate (not bound in an album) see 1935,0520.31.
After the painting now in Paris, in the Musée du Louvre, inv.no.1780.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Acquisition notes
- see comment on Hh,6.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Hh,6.16
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1983,U.2496.16
