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Portrait of Henry II, King of France

Nicolas Beatrizet (French, 1507 or 1515–about 1565)
After: Luca Penni (Italian, 1500–1556)
1556

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 47.7 × 32.4 cm (18 3/4 × 12 3/4 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo
Accession Number2010.1239
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 003, i/ii; Robert-Dumesnil 40, i/ii; Meyer 40, i/ii; IFF (16th cent.), vol. 1, p. 85, i/ii; Le Blanc 88, i/ii
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceBetween the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England; March 19, 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA and Naples, FL; 2010, year-end gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)