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Object Type
Museum number: O,8.131
Title: Object: Franciscus Valesius Hen. III R. F. F.
Description: Portrait of François, duke of Anjou and Alençon; half-length, turned to the left, wearing ruff, short cloak and doublet, and rows of pearls around the neck; in oval Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Thomas de Leu; Published by: Jean Rabel
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Production date: 1574-1600 (circa)
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Dimensions: Height: 90 millimetres (plate-mark); Width: 67 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Identified as brother to King Henri III by the title; the plate was therefore engraved after Henri III's accession to the throne (1574). Engraved after the same portrait as O,10.135. Grivel (2009) has identified the publisher as Jean Rabel the elder (c.1520-1586) in her catalogue raisonné of prints by father and son Rabel in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Bibliographic references: Grivel 2009 / Au sieur Rabel, parangon de la pourtraicture - nouvelles recherches sur les peintres-graveurs français de la fin du XVIe siècle: l'exemple de Jean Rabel (81); Robert-Dumesnil 1835-71 / Le Peintre-Graveur Français (X.77.297); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (219); Firmin-Didot 1875-77 / Les graveurs de portraits en France catalogue raisonné de la collection des portraits de l' École Française (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
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Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: O,8.131
Additional IDs: Other BM number: O,10.131 (wrong number stamped on verso)

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