Portrait of Jacques-Auguste De Thou (?)

ca. 1575 (Early Modern)

16.3 cm 19.3 cm

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Portraiture, which flourished in the 16th century in France, continued for the most part in the Franco-Flemish tradition of the realistic, straight-forward likeness established at the end of the Middle Ages. Painted enamel on copper was a good medium for small portrits because...

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Germeau Collection, no. 5; Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, Paris, April 17, 1893, no. 537; Sigismond Bardac, Paris, by purchase; Liquidation Sale, Seligmann Bros., Paris, March 16-17, 1914, no. 73; Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, 1914, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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