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Christina, Queen of Sweden

1654

Robert Nanteuil after Sébastien Bourdon

Associated Names

Robert Nanteuil

Artist, French, 1623 - 1678

Sébastien Bourdon

Artist After, French, 1616 - 1671

The image depicts an engraved portrait of a person from the torso upwards. The figure is positioned slightly turned to their left with their head facing the viewer in a three-quarter view. They have long, curly hair, arched eyebrows, a straight nose, and full lips. The person is dressed in a garment with a flowing cloth over their shoulders, fastened with a ribbon, and a high-collared shirt underneath. The portrait is framed within an oval, ornate border with ribbon-like decorations. The background features vertical lines within the oval, while the outer area is plain. Below the oval, there is an inscription in French, and the artist's name is at the bottom.

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Artwork overview

Medium

engraving
Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number

1943.3.6444
Catalogue Raisonné

Petitjean/Wickert 1927, no. 212, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1931

Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 47, repro.

1933

An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 129.

1998

"French Prints From the Age of the Musketeers", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1998-1999, no. 52.

2000

Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

Bibliography

1927

Petitjean, Charles and Ch. Wickert. Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Robert Nanteuil. Paris: Loys Delteil et Maurice Le Garrec, 1927.

1998

French Prints from the Age of the Musketeers. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, 1998-1999: no. 52

Wikidata ID

Q65025385

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