Album of French royal documents and portraits : manuscript, 1541-1832.

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Album of French royal documents and portraits : manuscript, 1541-1832.

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Numerous portrait drawings, prints and engravings of French kings and queens, including François I and his first wives Claude of Brittany and Eleanor of Austria (identified as Helyonneur), his mistress Françoise de Chateaubriant, Henri II and his wife Catherine de Medici, François II, Charles IX and his wife Elisabeth d'Autriche, Henri III and his wife Louise de Lorraine; Marguerite de France; Maria de Medici; Louis XIII and his wife Anne d'Austriche; Marie Thérèse of Austria, Françoise d'Aubigny; Louis XV, Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, Louis Philippe I, and others. With an engraved portrait of 1573 of Amiral Gasparis de Coligny, as well as occasional historical and allegorical engravings.

1 v. : vellum, ill. ; 45 x 58 cm.

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