Portrait of Elizabeth of Austria, Wife of King Charles IX of France

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

after 1571

François Clouet, follower of
French, 1516/20–1572

Currently Off View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Imitator of François Clouet
Title: Portrait of Elizabeth of Austria, Wife of King Charles IX of France
Origin: France
Date: 1571–1572
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed at upper edge: ELISABET. DAVSTRICHE. / DITE. DE. BOHEME. EPOV. / DV. ROY. CHARLES. IX.
Dimensions: 14 1/8 × 10 7/16 in. (35.8 × 26.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Lillian S. Timken
Reference Number: 1951.317

“The Century of Progress Exhibition of the Fine Arts,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27 (1933), p. 60.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 80.
Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2008), pp. 7-9, ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, cat. 9.

Mrs. William R. (Lillian S.) Timken, New York, by April 1933 [lent by her to Chicago 1933 ]; given to the Art Institute, 1951 [the painting remained in Mrs. Timken’s New York residence until her death in October 1959 and was then transferred to the Art Institute].

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