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Marie de’ Medici
Inscriptions
Inscribed upper right: F.PVRBIS / CRISTIANISS. / MA: PICTOR . FACIEBAT . AN / 1616
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300-1900, 17 October - 14 December 1986, no. 19.
Publications
Armand Baschet, “François Porbus, peintre de portraits à la cour de Mantoue,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, pér. 1, 25 (1868), p. 455. L[udwig] Burchard, “Pourbus, Frans, d. J.” in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, vol. 27, Leipzig, 1933, p. 317. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 360. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 257, ill., 285. Blaise Ducos, Frans Pourbus le Jeune (1569-1622). Le portrait d’apparat à l’aube du Grand Siècle entre Habsbourg, Médicis et Bourbons, Dijon, 2011, pp. 108, 132, 137, 140, 260-261, 262, 265, 355, n. 209, no. P.A. 88.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Frans Pourbus the Younger (Flemish, 1569-1622)
- Date
- 1616
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 99.7 × 77.5 cm (39 1/4 × 30 1/2 in.); Framed: 140.3 × 119.4 × 10.2 cm (55 1/4 × 47 × 4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Flanders
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Kate S. Buckingham
- Accession no.
- 1920.1034
Provenance
Possibly Venetian private collection [according to Baschet 1868, paintings of Marie de Médicis, Louis XIII, and Anne of Austria [sic] hanging together in the hôtel of Princesse Mathilde were acquired in Venice from a patrician family whose ancestors included ambassadors to France; the other two are now in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Karlsruhe; Ducos P.A. 82 and 83]; Princesse Mathilde Bonaparte, Paris, by 1868, died 1904; sold Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 17-21 May, 1904, no. 14. M. de Saint Alary, Paris [according to report on the Buckingham Collection, Art Institute Archives]. O’Brien & Son, Chicago [Buckingham report cited above]. Kate Buckingham, Chicago, by 1920, when lent to the Art Institute; accepted as a gift, 1932 [receipt 3053 and other documentation in curatorial file].
More by Frans Pourbus the Younger in museum collections
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