Rubens pinxit. G. Edelinck Eques effigiem Sculp. I.B. Nattier delineavit.
Avec Privilege du Roy. A Paris chez le Sr. Nattier peintre de l'Academie Royale rue Frementeau. [n.d., c.1710.]
Engraving, 505 x 290mm. 20 x 11½". A fine impression.
Francesco I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541 - 1587), father of Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France (1573 - 1642). The Grand Duke stands on a balcony, wearing breeches and ermine-trimmed cape, with cross of the Order of St Stephen; his left hand rests on a cane, a draped curtain beyond. Plate 2 from a series of twenty-four portraits 'La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg', by Gérard Edelinck (1640 - 1707) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640); the painting now in Paris, in the Musée du Louvre.
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