Artist: Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert or Nicolaes Moyaert or Mooyaert (1592–1655) was an authoritative Catholic Dutch painter, after.
Engraver: Pieter Nolpe (Dutch, 1613/1614–1652/1653).
Title: Allegory on the Discord in France.
Signed within the image: [Monogrammed initials] CL Moyaert; Below the image: [plate] 9.
Dimensions: Image 11 1/4"x 14 7/8". Sheet 12 3/8" x 15 5/8".
Publisher: I.&C. Blaeu.
Edition: Kasper van Baerle. Medicea hospes, sive descriptio publicæ gratulationis, qua ... reginam Mariam de Medicis excepit senatus populusque Amsteldamensis. Amsterdam, 1638.
Date: 1638.
Materials and Techniques: etching on laid paper.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Folded as issued. Central vertical crease reinforced verso, Worn corners, trimmed margins. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: This is one from a series of sixteen plates showing the festivals and ceremonies given to Marie de Medici by the city of Amsterdam during her visit from 31 August to 5 September 1638. Kasper van Baerle. Medicea hospes... p. 46 - 47.
Museums and Libraries: The British Museum 1871,1209.4803.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 51.501.6158(5).
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: Dutch School XVII C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from the catalog entry and uses the catalog description of the same item from the collection of the British Museum.