Calender for 1659: Allegory on the Submission of Flanders to Louis XIV

Calender for 1659: Allegory on the Submission of Flanders to Louis XIV

• Almanach, pour l'an de grace mil six cent cinquante-neuf
• La Flandre Despouillée des habits d'Espagne et revestue a la Françoise

RP-P-2010-153

• collector's mark: Lugt 2760
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• inscription: ‘La Flandre/ Despouillé des/ habits d'Espagne/ et revestue à la/ Françoise’

The war between France and Spain, which had lasted 24 years, came to an end in 1659. The defeated Spanish king, Philip IV, was forced to cede large parts of the southern Netherlands to the French king, Louis XIV. Here the figure of France (wearing a cloak decorated with fleurs-de-lis) strips Flanders of her Spanish costume and dresses her in the latest French fashion.

IFF 17e siècle 268-1(2)

• print maker: Jean Lepautre (mentioned on object), France
• after own design by: after design of Jean Lepautre (mentioned on object), France
• publisher: Nicolas de Poilly (I) (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Pierre Mariette (I) (mentioned on object)
• verlener van privilege: Lodewijk XIV (koning van Frankrijk) (mentioned on object), France

1659

gravure en ets met tekst in boekdruk in zwart en rood

• height 538 mm x width 396 mm
• height 514 mm x width 368 mm

Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

purchase 2010-01-20

Public domain

IFF 17e siècle 268-1(2)

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