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Diane de Poitiers Receiving a Message from Francis I

Date

1846

Creator

Edouard Pingret
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

This canvas of Diane de Poitiers Receiving a Message from Francis I captures an intimate moment in the life of the famous Renaissance beauty, an influential woman at the court of Francis I in the early 1500s, as she reads a message from the king. In the background, a man’s portrait hanging above the fireplace may in fact be based on Titian’s Portrait of Francis I, which was first displayed at the Musée du Louvre in 1804 and would have been well known to Pingret. … Although a narrative is clearly suggested by the intensity with which Diane de Poitiers reads the letter, and by the presence of the messenger who waits for her reply to the king, there is no easily identifiable event that might have served as the source for this image.

from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)

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Creator
Edouard Pingret (French, 1788 - 1875)
Date
1846
Classification
Paintings
Related Location
Europe, France
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
32 x 25 7/8 in. (81.28 x 65.72 cm)
Credit Line
The Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection
Copyright Status
Public domain
Subject
Canis familiaris
fireplace
letters
reading
Renaissance Revival
Troubadour

Metadata

Accession Number
2009.045.047
Campus Location
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
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