Marie de Médicis, Queen of France by POURBUS, Frans the Younger

POURBUS, Frans the Younger

(b. 1569, Antwerpen, d. 1622, Paris)

	Marie de Médicis, Queen of France 1609-10 Oil on canvas, 307 x 186 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
In his formal portrait of Marie de Médicis (1573-1642), Queen of France from 1600, Pourbus displayed a realistic, austere style typical of the sixteenth-century Italian-Spanish tradition.