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Jaspar de Isaac (d. 1654)

Charlotte de la Trémoille, Dowager Princess of Condé c.1588-1600

Engraving | 14.7 x 9.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 615432

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  • An engraving of Charlotte de la Trémouille, Princess of Condé. Half length with French hood, open collar, pearl earrings and necklace, slashed gown, and pearl roped bodice. Within an oval border bearing Latin inscription with French inscription below. Cut down.

    This print is lettered around the portrait: "M.M. CHARLOTE CATERINE DE LA TRIMOVILLE PRINCESSE DOVAIRIERE DE CONDE';" along the bottom: "L'Auteur au Graueur // Graueur tu monstre auoir, trop de presumption / Voulant portraire' icij, Cette Auguste Princesse / Veux tu la peindre' au uraij, d'une gentille adresse? / peins au uif la VERTV et la RELIGION. // Jaspar Isac fecit".

    The print formed part of an album of French royal portrait prints assembled by Cassiano dal Pozzo in Rome and described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III's library as Kings of France, Queens and other illustrious Personages. The album was arranged chronologically, with kings and their consorts together, while the latter part of the album was devoted to the female aristocracy of France. It was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and its prints incorporated into the series of Engraved Royal Portraits (organised dynastically).

    For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 1314.

    Provenance

    From the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-22 October 1657); inherited by his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); sold by Carlo Antonio's grandson to Clement XI, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani by 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762

  • Medium and techniques

    Engraving

    Measurements

    14.7 x 9.3 cm (sheet of paper)

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