[Entrée d'Henri II] C'est l'ordre qui a este tenu a la nouvelle et ioyeuse entrée que tres hault, tresexcellent et trespuissant Prince le Roy treschrestien Henry deuzieme de ce nom à faicte en sa bonne ville et cité de Paris...
1549
Artist, French, 1510 - 1565
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 1 woodcut headpiece and 11 woodcut illustrations including 2 fold-outs on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 24.4 × 17.2 × 1.2 cm (9 5/8 × 6 3/4 × 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2016.91.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, Catalog no. 296); purchased 2016 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1982
McFarlane, I.D.The Entry of Henri II into Paris, 16 June 1549. Binghamton: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 1982.
1996
Zerner, Henri. L'art de la renaissance en France: L'invention du classicisme. Paris, 1996: 283-285, figs. 322-323, 325.
Inscriptions
inside upper cover in graphite: cc/[?]106/[?] / marque de P. Roffet, / Renouard 1010
Watermarks
on paste-down and free endpaper: crown over a bell with monogram HR in the middle;
the letter P is evident in several sheets