print
- Museum number
- Hh,6.19
- 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; 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. 1704
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1704
- Dimensions
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Height: 491 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 342 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 1891,0414.1226. For a proof impression see 1982,U.1311.
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
- 1799
- Acquisition notes
- see comment on Hh,6.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Hh,6.19
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1983,U.2496.19
