Marie de’ Medici

1. Possibly Venetian private collection [according to Baschet 1868, paintings of Marie de Médicis, Louis XIII, and Anne of Austria [sic] hanging together in the hôtel of Princesse Mathilde were acquired in Venice from a patrician family whose ancestors included ambassadors to France; the other two are now in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Karlsruhe; Ducos P.A. 82 and 83]; Princesse Mathilde Bonaparte, Paris, by 1868, died 1904; sold Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 17-21 May, 1904, no. 14. M. de Saint Alary, Paris [according to report on the Buckingham Collection, Art Institute Archives]. O’Brien & Son, Chicago [Buckingham report cited above]. Kate Buckingham, Chicago, by 1920, when lent to the Art Institute; accepted as a gift, 1932 [receipt 3053 and other documentation in curatorial file].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300-1900, 17 October - 14 December 1986, no. 19.

• Armand Baschet, “François Porbus, peintre de portraits à la cour de Mantoue,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, pér. 1, 25 (1868), p. 455.
• L[udwig] Burchard, “Pourbus, Frans, d. J.” in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, vol. 27, Leipzig, 1933, p. 317.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 360.
• John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 257, ill., 285.
• Blaise Ducos, Frans Pourbus le Jeune (1569-1622). Le portrait d’apparat à l’aube du Grand Siècle entre Habsbourg, Médicis et Bourbons, Dijon, 2011, pp. 108, 132, 137, 140, 260-261, 262, 265, 355, n. 209, no. P.A. 88.

The Guardhouse

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Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

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Portrait of a Nobleman in Armor

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Saint Christopher

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Armor for Field and Tournament

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The Music Lesson

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The Betrayal, from The Passion

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Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market

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