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Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642,. Collection of documents relating to Peter Paul Rubens and Marie de Médicis : Paris and Antwerp, 1621-1628.

Title: Collection of documents relating to Peter Paul Rubens and Marie de Médicis : Paris and Antwerp, 1621-1628.

Collection consists of two contracts for commissions to decorate the Luxembourg Palace and two autograph letters signed from Rubens to Pierre Dupuy. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (4 items) ; 36cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715351299 View

Bouthillier, Claude, 1581-1652,. Contract for the commission of the Medici Cycle : Paris, 1622 Feb. 26.

Title: Contract for the commission of the Medici Cycle : Paris, 1622 Feb. 26.

Contract specifying the terms of the commission of 24 tableaux, to be entirely in the hand of Rubens, for the decoration of two galleries in the Luxembourg Palace.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 34.1 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270619227 View

Bouthillier, Léon, comte de Chavigny, 1608-1652. Inventaire et prisée des livres de feu monseigneur de Chavigny trouvés dans son cabinet [manuscript], Paris, 1652.

Title: Inventaire et prisée des livres de feu monseigneur de Chavigny trouvés dans son cabinet [manuscript], Paris, 1652.

Manuscript inventory with prices of the printed books in the library of Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny (1608-1652), French minister of state, drawn up by Antoine Bertier and Simeon Piget, Parisian booksellers, on 16 Dec. 1652. The collection is priced 5,523 livres and at the end there is the attestation of the booksellers along with the following signatures: Phelipeaux, Bouthillier, Martinet, and Richer. The descriptions of the books are brief but clear. Holdings include atlases; ancient and modern histories; regional histories; Bibles; ecclesiastical works; commentaries; two editions by Bodin; the works of Erasmus; science and natural history, including Dioscorides, Gesner, Vesalius, and five volumes of Kepler, Agricola, and Tycho Brahe; and newspapers and literature. The booksellers who prepared the inventory have also noted distinctive aspects of the library: those books in folio of the Imprimerie Royale, books bound in morocco, and suites of engravings. Guigard cites an inventory of manuscripts of Bouthillier and refers to Baron Pichon regarding the armorial binding stamp of Léon de Bouthillier; however, he does not mention the present inventory, which appears to be unpublished.

ArchivalResource: [15] p. ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123488354 View

Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642,. Contract for decoration of the Luxembourg Palace : Paris, 1621 Apr. 15.

Title: Contract for decoration of the Luxembourg Palace : Paris, 1621 Apr. 15.

Contract specifying the terms of the commission to decorate the Grande Salle and Galerie of the Luxembourg Palace.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (7 p.) ; 34.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270609581 View