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Object Type
Museum number: R,6.82
Description: Portrait of François Ravaillac, murderer of King Henri IV; whole-length directed to right, holding a knife in his right hand; in the upper right, individual portraits of Henri IV, his Queen Marie de' Medici, and their son Louis XIII; in the background, a city, with scenes showing Ravaillac murdering Henri IV in his carriage, and the different stages of his subsequent execution Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Christoffel van Sichem I; Published by: Claes Jansz. Visscher
School/style
Production date: 1610-1624 (circa)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 238 millimetres (plate-mark); Width: 158 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Also see 1927,1008.225 for an impression of a deceptively identical but separate plate, also etched by Sichem. Hollstein only records one print on the subject.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: execution; torture; criminal/thief
Associated names: Portrait of: François Ravaillac; Portrait of: Henri IV, King of France and Navarre; Portrait of: Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France; Portrait of: Louis XIII, King of France and Navarre
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: R,6.82

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