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Object Type
print
Museum number
R,6.76
Description
Portrait of Henri IV, bust length, turned to left, wearing ruff, a fur-trimmed cloak over a doublet, and the chains of the orders of the Saint-Esprit and Saint Michel Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Hendrik Goltzius
Published by:
Paul de La Houve
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1600
(circa)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
350 millimetres
Width:
253 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For another impression see 1868,0822.611. This print was issued as a black and white facsimile by the British Museum in 'Reproductions of Prints in the British Museum', New Series Part VI (Specimens of Line-engraving by Masters of Germany and the Low Countries (1530-1620)), Published by the Trustees in 1897, where it was number VIII and described there as 'Hendrik Goltzius. Portrait of Henry IV., King of France.'; see 1897,08.13.20.9 (Shelfmark 245*.b.20).
Bibliographic references
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(226.II)
(Hendrick Goltzius)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(193.II)
Hirschmann 1921 / Hendrik Goltzius, Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes
(193)
Strauss 1977 / Hendrik Goltzius: the complete engravings and woodcuts
(357)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(III.53.173)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
1985 May-Oct, London, Museum of London, Huguenots 2012/13 Oct-Jan, London, NPG, The Lost Prince
Subjects
king/queen
Associated names
Portrait of:
Henri IV, King of France and Navarre
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
(with Philipe's oval stamp and the initials CMC)
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Pierre Mariette II
(signed and dated 1680 on the verso)
Acquisition date
1799
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
R,6.76