Coronation of Maria de'Medici
Maker: Unknown
Single kid leaf painted in bodycolour and gold with the Coronation of Maria de'Medici after Rubens; ivory sticks and guards inlaid with mother-of-pearl and silver piqué point.
Single leaf of kid, painted in polychrome bodycolour with remnants of gilding on the lower edge. Sticks of ivory, pierced, carved, inlaid with etched/engraved mother-of-pearl plaques edged by silver piqué point. Guards inlaid with etched mother-of-pearl and silver piqué point, the head strengthened with mother-of-pearls. Rivet set with a pink paste. Front: painted overall with the Coronation of Maria de'Medici after Rubens. Reverse: undecorated. Sticks: pierced with a diaper pattern and carved with a, lady and gentleman seated on either side of the central motif: an oval mother-of-pearl plaque etched with a gentleman offering a heart to a seated lady. Arranged symmetrically above and on either side there are five stars, a crescent, fur diamonds, two ovals, two circular and two heart shapes, four bees and two baskets of fruit of etched mother-of-pearl, all outlined in silver piqué point. Guards: inlaid with flowers, foliage and a bird etched mother-0of-pearl framed by silver piqué point and having at the top a crown in silver piqué point.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from the Friends of the Fitzwilliam
Width: 52 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
18th Century, Early#
Circa
1700
-
Circa
1720
Maria de'Medici (1573-1642) daugher of Francesco I, grand-duke of Tuscany was married to Henri IV of France in 1600. She was crowned in the Basilica of Saint Denis on 13 May 1610, the day before her husband's assassination. Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) painted the series of twenty-four paintings known as the Medici Cycle between 1622-25 for the palais du Luxembourg. it is now in the Louvre. The fan was probably based on an engraving by Jean Audran (1667-1756) published in 1710.
Rivet
composed of
paste
( pink)
Leaf
composed of
bodycolour
( polychrome)
kid
Sticks+guards
composed of
mother-of-pearl
ivory
Guards
Length 29.3 cm
Sticks
Accession number: M.20-1985
Primary reference Number: 117606
Old catalogue number: DR 28/370
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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