Plate 9: Allegory on the Discord in France, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes"

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

1638 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Discordia setting fire to a large globe as the French queen, Marie de Medici, looks on from the left. At right, the female personification of France raises her arms in horror. 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

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

Date

1638

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951