Marie Touchet, Countess of Entragues - Hand-Colored Engraving - 1836
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Marie Touchet, Countess of Entragues - Hand-Colored Engraving - 1836

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Original hand-colored engraving with the full-length portrait of Marie Touchet, Countess of Entragues (1549-1638): black gown embroidered in gold over a green skirt, lace ruff and feathered headdress. Engraved by Ed. Hargrave for The Lady's Magazine and Museum, London, 1836.

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Original hand-colored engraving with the full-length portrait of Marie Touchet, Countess of Entragues (1549-1638): black gown embroidered in gold over a green skirt, lace ruff and feathered headdress. Engraved by Ed. Hargrave for The Lady's Magazine and Museum, London, 1836.

Marie Touchet was the mistress of Charles IX of France and mother of Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême; she later married François de Balzac d'Entragues, whence the title given below the image. This is no. 36 in the magazine's series of antique portraits.

Medium: Hand-colored copper engraving.
Engraver: Edmund Hargrave.
Date: 1836.
Source: The Lady's Magazine and Museum, vol. IX, no. 36 of the series of antique portraits; Dobbs and Page, 112 Fetter Lane, London.
Dimensions: 5.9 x 10 in (15 x 25.5 cm).
Condition: Paper browned with scattered damp stains in the margins; the color bright and well preserved.

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