The Divine Role of the Diadem in Rubens’s Marie de’ Medici Cycle

Figures & data

Figure 1. Painting n^o 10 in the cycle. L’Arrivée de la reine à Lyon, Peter Paul Rubens, 1622–1625. INV 1775; MR 966, height 3.94 m, width 2.95 m. Oil on canvas, photograph © 2003 Musée du Louvre / Angèle Dequier.

Figure 2. Painting n^o 18 in the cycle. La Félicité de la Régence, Peter Paul Rubens, 1625. INV 1783; MR 974, height 3.94 m, width 2.95 m. Oil on canvas, photograph © 2003 Musée du Louvre / Angèle Dequier.

Figure 3. Painting n^o 19 in the cycle. La Majorité de Louis XIII. La reine remet les affaires au roi, le 20 octobre 1614, Peter Paul Rubens, 1622–1625. INV 1784, MR 975, height 3.94, width 2.95 m. Oil on canvas, photograph © 2003 Musée du Louvre / Angèle Dequier.

Figure 4. Painting n^o 4 in the cycle. Les Parques filant le destin de la reine Marie de Médicis sous la protection de Jupiter et de Junon, Peter Paul Rubens, 1622–1625. INV 1769, MR 960, height 3.94, width 1.55 m. Oil on canvas, photograph © 2003 Musée du Louvre / Angèle Dequierand.

Figure 5. Painting n^o 7 in the cycle. Henri IV reçoit le portrait de Marie de Médicis et se laisse désarmer par l’Amour, Peter Paul Rubens, 1622–1625. INV 1772, MR 963, height 3.94 m, width 2.95 m. Oil on canvas, photograph © 2003 Musée du Louvre / Angèle Dequier.

Figure 6. Statuette: Marie de Médicis en Junon, Barthélémy Prieur, 1600–1610, bronze, 63 × 30 × 26 cm. © 1990 RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Daniel Arnaudet.

Figure 7. Artémis, déesse de la chasse, know also as “Diane de Versailles”, Italian copy appr. 125–150 A D, marble. MR 152, N 1157, Ma 589, height 200 cm, width 139 cm, depth 103 cm. Musée du Louvre, author’s photograph.

Figure 8. Sketch for painting n^o 18 in the cycle, (photographic copy) photographed by the author in the Louvre archives, 2022-01-21, marked “Glückliche Regierung der Königin, Munich”, detail.

Figure 9. Sketch for painting n^o 19 in the cycle, for Wikimedia commons by Pinakothek München, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Paul_Rubens_217.jpg.

Figure 10. La Mort de Didon, reine de Carthage, Peter Paul Rubens, ca 1635–1638, detail, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, author’s photograph.