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École française d’époque Restauration. Hugues...

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École française d’époque Restauration. Hugues de Romance, lord of Mesmont, squire in the stable of King Henri IV in 1592. Pen drawing on paper. Captioned in ink at the bottom. Insolation. Framed. On the back a handwritten paper of the period: "This drawing made with a pen was taken from the original portrait contained in an engraved plate of the royal riding school of Pluvinel where King Louis XIII is represented riding a horse in the pillars: behind the king the lord of Mesmon on foot touching the rump of the horse with the geaulle. All the figures of the people of the court who are either on foot behind the king or in the balcony are portraits au naturel, and the ... are printed at the ... of each." With label of the gilder Louis-Claude Infroit, rue de Paradis in Paris. H. 22 x W. 13 cm (at sight).