Christina of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany and Christine of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany
Description:
1842, May 14, Day 18, Lot 110 bt Earl of Derby, £5.5.0; 1954 July 2, Christie's, Derby Sale, Lot 207 to Agnew & Sons for W.S. Lewis September 1954. The lot of six drawings also included a Flemish drawing of a Female Saint worshipping a crucifix., Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand.
Subject (Topic):
Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Walpole Horace, 1717-1797
Christina of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany and Christine of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany
Description:
1842, May 14, Day 18, Lot 110 bt Earl of Derby, £5.5.0; 1954 July 2, Christie's, Derby Sale, Lot 207 to Agnew & Sons for W.S. Lewis September 1954. The lot of six drawings also included a Flemish drawing of a Female Saint worshipping a crucifix., Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand.
Subject (Topic):
Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Walpole Horace, 1717-1797
No. 67 in an edition of 502 copies, of which there are "65 exemplaires sur vélin d'arches, numérotés de 36 à 100 (tous ces exemplaires contiennent dix illustrations et sont signés par l'auteur et les traducteurs)."
Publisher:
Editions de la Montagne,
Subject (Name):
Hugnet, Georges, 1906-1974., Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973., Stein, Gertrude,--1874-1946--Presentation inscription to C. van Vechten., Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989., and Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Presentation inscription from G. Stein.