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Portrait of Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Thomas de Leu (French, about 1555–about 1612)
about 1580-1610
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 12.5 × 9.9 cm (4 15/16 × 3 7/8 in.)(trimmed within the platemark; lacking the blank bottom margin)
Credit Line
Gift of Gordon Abbott and George Peabody Gardner
Accession Number22.968
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Robert-Dumesnil 358, an undescribed state before the inscription in the oval and the quatrain in the bottom margin; IFF 280, i/ii; Le Blanc 148
Marks
Verso, lower right, stamped in red ink, the mark of Charles M. Petitjean, Versailles (died c. 1925)(Lugt 608); verso, lower right, 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]