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Queens of France, Marie de Medici and Anne of Austria. Lot of 23 bronze tokens

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Queens of France, Marie de Medici and Anne of Austria. Lot of 23 bronze tokens

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Estim. 1 500 - 2 500 EUR

French school, circa 1700, after Pierre-Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp) "The Queen's Instruction", from the "Marie de Médicis" cycle. 128.5 x 96 cm. Oil on canvas Presented in a wooden frame, painted black and gilded, with foliage motifs in imitation of the Tuscan taste. Provenance : - Collection of a distinguished Bastia family, established since the 1970s. Our painting is a copy of the second episode of the famous monumental suite of twenty-four paintings illustrating, in heroic style, the life of Marie de Médicis (1573-1642), Queen of France and wife of Henri IV. Painted between 1622 and 1625 for one of the two galleries - the western gallery - on the second floor of Marie de Médicis' palace in Paris, the "Palais du Luxembourg" (now the Senate), they are now in the Musée du Louvre (394 x 295 cm, inv. 1771). These large canvases, unusual works in that they were entirely autographed, furnished the walls of the gallery's windows. In keeping with the traditional iconography of Pedagogy, the child queen (like the Virgin Child in front of Saint Anne) is instructed by Minerva, goddess of the Arts and Sciences, with the help of Mercury, god of eloquence, descended from heaven, and Orpheus, poet and musician par excellence, symbol of good moral pedagogy useful to a future sovereign. Orpheus and Minerva take on the role of the princess's nurturing parents. The three Graces (one of whom crowns Marie) illustrate the necessary dialogue between the Beaux-Arts, which the queen loved to practice, and nature, between body and mind. For a time, the nudity of the Graces was lightly veiled (from before 1685 until the 19th c.), then these overpaintings of modesty were cleaned up quite brutally in the 1860s, which was the subject of much controversy. It is interesting to note that our version bears witness to the "prudish" state of the work. (Recent overpainting)

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"Marie Anne D'AUTRICHE, Queen Regent of Spain...". (c. 1690) Engraving (26.5 x 21 cm). Paris, chez P. BERTRAND, rue Saint Jacques.

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