ID: 700009620 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009620	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Marie de'Medici cycle (paintings (visual works); Peter Paul Rubens; commissioned by Marie de'Medici; commissioned in 1621; painted ...; Louvre Museum (Paris, Île-de-France, France);)

Note: Series of 24 monumental paintings commissioned by Marie de' Medici, widow of Henry IV of France, for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. They depict episodes from the queen's life, together with ancient gods and mythological references.

Titles:

Marie de'Medici cycle (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: series

Work Types:

paintings (visual works) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: commissioned in 1621; painted between 1622 and 1625

Creator Display:

Peter Paul Rubens; commissioned by Marie de'Medici [preferred]

painter Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish painter, 1577-1640) [500002921]

patron Marie de Médicis, Queen consort of Henry IV (French queen consort, 1573-1642) [500122326]

Locations:

Current: Louvre Museum (Paris, Île-de-France, France) [500125189] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Address Note: Richelieu wing - 2nd floor - Room 801 - Rubens: the Galerie Médicis

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: monumental, various dimensions

General Subject:

biographical (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	De' Medici, Maria, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France (French queen consort, 1573-1642) [500122326]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Marie de'Medici cycle	........ [VP]
	........ Janson, History of Art (1971)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Janson, History of Art (1971)
	..... Louvre Museum (2016-)