Circle of Frans Pourbus II (1569-1622)
Circle of Frans Pourbus II (1569-1622)

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Circle of Frans Pourbus II (1569-1622)

Study of Heads for the Echevins de Paris

oil on canvas--unframed
15 x 22 5/8in. (38.1 x 57.5cm.)

Lot Essay

The present work may be related to a destroyed picture in the Htel de Ville, Paris, showing Louis XIII as a child receiving members of the Town Council. Surviving fragments of this painting are in the Hermitage, Warsaw, and in a private collection in Belgium; see J. Wilhelm, Pourbus, peintre de la municipalité Parisienne, in Art de France III, 1963, p. 114.