Title(s)

Doos van koning Lodewijk IX van Frankrijk, gezien vanaf de voorkant
Cassette de Saint Louis (title on object)
Musée National du Louvre Galerie d'Apollon (series title)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1545A-4

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘1226 - 1270’
• inscription: ‘face latérale antérieure’

Artist

• photographer: Léon Vidal (mentioned on object)
• Léon Vidal (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

c. 1876 - c. 1883

Material

• paper

Technique

photochrom

Measurements

height 247 mm × width 354 mm

What

• chasing, embossing (industrial process)
• fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques'); 'Mostri' (Ripa)
• coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.)
• chest, coffer

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Le trésor artistique de la France volume 1 (RP-F-2001-7-1545A)