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Francois de Medicis Grand Duc de Toscane (Primary Title)

Gérard Edelinck, French, born Flanders, 1640 - 1707 (Artist)

17th century
Flemish
Works On Paper
Prints
engraving on heavy wove paper
European Art
Sheet (trimmed to platemark): 19 13/16 × 11 7/16 in. (50.32 × 29.05 cm)
35.1.256
Not on view
Printed beneath image, lower left: "Rubens pinxit"; lower right: "G. Edelink Eques essigiem sculp./ I.B. Nattier delineavit."; lower center: "François de Medicis Grand Duc de Toscane/ pere de la Reine Marie qui mourut sans enfans mâles/ legitimes en 1587, aquet Ferdinand 1er. son frere qui avoit/ été Cardinal succeda apres avoir quitte la pourpre./ Avec privilege du Roy. A Paris Chez le Sr. Nattier peintre de l'Academie Royale rue Frementeau." Inscribed in graphite lower right: "5." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "WHV" and "JRW"
Gift of John Barton Payne
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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