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[incorrectly:] Portrait of Claude de France, duchesse de Lorraine
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Portrait of Marguerite de Lorraine
[incorrectly:] Portrait of Claude de France, duchesse de Lorraine
Thomas de Leu (French, about 1555–about 1612)
about 1580-1610
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 15.2 × 9.9 cm (6 × 3 7/8 in.)(with 1 mm margin at the top; trimmed on or slightly within the platemark on the other three sides, or with thread margin in places)
Credit Line
Gift of Gordon Abbott and George Peabody Gardner
Accession Number22.1000
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Robert-Dumesnil 440, only state
DescriptionRobert-Dumesnil (vol. 11 (Supplement), p. 124) states that the original identification of the sitter, in vol. 10, as Claude de France, duchesse de Lorraine, is incorrect.
Marks
Verso of backing sheet, lower right-center, stamped in red ink, the mark of Charles M. Petitjean, Versailles (died c. 1925)(Lugt 608); verso of backing sheet, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenancePetitjean Collection
PDP Register entry: Date acquired, 4/1/1922 [exact to month]
PDP Register entry: Date acquired, 4/1/1922 [exact to month]