An Unlikely Pairing? How Netherlandish Painting Brought Light to Louis XIV’s France

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1 See for example, Philip Benedict et al. (eds), Reformation, Revolt and Civil War in France and the Netherlands, 1555–1585 (Amsterdam, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1999); Luc Panhuysen, Oranje tegen de Zonnekoning: De strijd tussen Willem III en Lodewijk IV om Europa (Amsterdam and Antwerp, Atlas Contact, 2016); Jonas van Tol, ‘William of Orange in France and the Transnationality of the Sixteenth-Century Wars of Religion’, BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review 134.4 (2019), pp. 33-58; Bram van Leuveren, Forging Diplomacy Abroad and At Home: French Festival Culture in a European Context, 1572–1615 (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Saint Andrews, 2019), pp. 111-70.

2 Stone, Crowning Glories, pp. 198-202. For Jaucourt’s entry, see ‘Ecole hollandaise’, in Encyclopédie, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de Lettres, 28 vols (Paris, Briasson, 1751–1772), vol. V (1755), pp. 323-4.

3 Jaucourt, ‘Ecole hollandaise’, p. 323; Stone, Crowning Glories, p. 202.

4 Stone acknowledges this to some extent when she discusses Louis XIV’s official autopsy report and Marquis de Dangeau’s court diary of the monarch’s final days (Crowning Glories, pp. 149-57).

5 For Lepautre’s almanac, see Louis Le Grand: L’amour et les délices de son peuple […] (Paris, Nicolas Langlois, 1688).

6 Jeroen J. H. Dekker, ‘Beauty and Simplicity: The Power of Fine Art in Moral Teaching on Education in Seventeenth-Century Holland’, Journal of Family History, 34.2 (2009), pp. 166-88.

7 Eddy de Jongh, Questions of Meaning: Theme and Motif in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting, Michael Hoyle (ed. and trans.) (Leiden, Primavera Pers, 2000), pp. 43-6.

8 Claus Kemmer, ‘In Search of Classical Form: Gerard de Lairesse’s “Groot Schilderboek” and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting’, Simiolus, 26.1/2 (1998), pp. 87-115; Hanneke Ronnes and Merel Haverman, ‘A Reappraisal of the Architectural Legacy of King-Stadholder William III and Queen Mary II: Taste, Passion and Frenzy’, The Court Historian, 25.2 (2020), pp. 158-77 (pp. 166-8, 175-6).

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Bram van Leuveren

Bram van Leuveren

Bram van Leuveren is Lecturer in Arts, Culture and Media Studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research focusses on the salient role of festival culture in supporting diplomatic relations between France and its most important European associates in the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries, including England, Spain, and the Low Countries. His first monograph, Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture, 1572–1615, based on his doctoral research at the University of Saint Andrews, is under contract with Brill. Previous publications appeared in Early Modern Low Countries and Arti dello Spettacolo / Performing Arts, among others.