Reference number: 78J / 2618

Origin: Flanders - Brussels

Period: 16th century

Provenance: Private Collection

Composition: Wool and silk

Dimension: L 2.63 x H 2.83

• a young aristocrat on a throne, surrounded by his court, to whom a princess is presented.

• He wears blond long hair (like Maximilian) a command baton in his hand, a necklace on his neck (unidentified, not a knightly order necklace like that of Saint-Michel, or the Golden Fleece) , sits on a throne covered with a cloth embroidered with grenades that tumbles to the ground.

• court composed to his right of a group of three women, a couple close to the prince, the princess and a matchmaker making a gesture of the hand as to convince the future wife / fiancee of the merits of this union.

• to the left of the prince is a man between two women

• the princess is blonde (so by Anne de Bretagne), wears a complex headdress (crown, escoffion, reel), a dress with orfroi at the base and belt, a coat stuffed with ermine, a necklace. She receives an offering (spherical object in a gold plate embellished with pearls) of a blond servant, bending the knee, in a dress slit to the side, being the only figure discovered in the image, as a sign of respect.

• the scene is set on a floor of a thousand flowers (strawberry, daffodils, honeysuckle, type XVe) and trees appear in the background. A shield occupies each of the higher angles, it certainly identified the sponsor of the work (research to follow). The whole is framed by a rich frieze of flowers (roses, daisies, pansies), leaves, fruits (bunches of grapes) and fine intertwined headbands, which links the work to the Brussels production center.

• clothing: shoes in bear feet (> 1480), berets (deb sixteenth), breeches (red), thigh tunics with orfroi at the ends, women's hair visible under the headdresses particularly rich and complex (drums d silverware, escoffions), square necklines revealing a shirt, goldsmith's necklaces (no apparently chivalrous order). Mix of 15th and early 16th elements that justify the estimated dating.

• Capillary fashion: middle stripe and blond for women, long neck hair for men (late 15th-early 16th century, see Charles VIII, Ferdinand of Aragon, Charles V young)

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