Description

Lemaître Direxit 1844 ‘Mary of Burgundy’

Mausoleum Tomb steel plate engraving.

Lemaître direxit – Gravure en taille douce 1844.

Tombeau de Marie Duchesse de Bourgogne – Mausoleum tomb of Mary Duchess of Burgundy.

Situated in Bruges Belgium.

Specifications

✓ Type: Original steel plate engraving of 1844
✓ Technic: gravure en taille douce (intaglio engraving)
✓ Period of Louis-Philippe Ier
✓ Sheet: 200 x 132 mm
✓ Image: 154 x 100 mm
✓ True collector’s item
✓ Artist: French – Lemaître direxit (Lemaître, Augustin, François (1797-1870)

Information on Mary of Burgundy

Mary (French: Marie; Dutch: Maria; 13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482), Duchess of Burgundy – House of Valois – Burgundy. Wife of Emperor Maximilian I. Reigned over the Burgundian State, now mainly in France and the Low Countries, from 1477 until her death in a riding accident at the age of 25. She was buried in the Church of Our Lady in Bruges (Belgium) on April 3rd 1482.

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