Maria de Medici, Queen of France, mid-17th century

  • Anton van Dyck, Flemish, 1599-1641
  • Paul Pontius, Flemish, 1603-1658

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 9 5/8 × 7 1/4 inches (24.4 × 18.4 cm) Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 inches (26.4 × 20.3 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S878

Watermark, center bottom edge of sheet: [partial and faint] Stamp, verso: Scripps 1885 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a]

Inscribed, in plate below image, center: MARIA DE MEDICES REGINA FRANCIAE | TRIVM REGVM MATER. Inscribed, bottom left edge of plate: Paul. Pontius Sculp. Ant. van Dyck pinxit Inscribed, lower right edge: cum privilegio

1885, N. C. Perkins. 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Paul Pontius; after Anton van Dyck, Maria de Medici, Queen of France, mid-17th century, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S878.