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The Entry of Henri II into Nancy
Jacques Bellange (French (Lorraine), about 1575–1616)
and: Friedrich Brentel (German (Strasbourg) 1580–1651)
and: Matthäus Merian I (German, 1593–1650)
and: Friedrich Brentel (German (Strasbourg) 1580–1651)
and: Matthäus Merian I (German, 1593–1650)
1610-1611
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 18.2 x 49.2 cm (7 3/16 x 19 3/8 in.)(trimmed on or within the platemark at the left; with thread margins on the other three sides)
Credit Line
Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo
Accession Number2010.1311
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Not in Thuillier; Walch 1, only state; Worthen & Reed 1; Griffiths & Hartley 1; not in IFF; not in Robert-Dumesnil; not in Meyer; not in Le Blanc
DescriptionBellange drew his own portrait and horse in this image. See N. Walch, Bellange, cat. 1.
Marks
Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceBetween the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England; March 19, 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA and Naples, FL; 2010, year-end gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)