Plate 12: Allegory on the Discord in France, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes"

Pieter Nolpe|Joan and Cornelius Blaeu|Caspar Barlaeus|Claes Moeyaert

1638 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Henry IV as Hercules repairing the broken globe by forging a band around it. Minerva and Mars assist him at left while Marie de Medici stands to the right. The female personification of France at far left and the Olympian gods looking down from above. One of a series of sixteen plates showing the festivals and ceremonies in honor of Marie de Medici's visit to Amsterdam from August 31 to September 5, 1638. Illustration to Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes", Amsterdam, 1638.

Artist

Pieter Nolpe|Joan and Cornelius Blaeu|Caspar Barlaeus|Claes Moeyaert

Date

1638

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951