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Rare HSP painting portrait King France Charles VIII Rex Galiae Amboise XVè

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Rare oil on panel representing the profile portrait of the king of France Charles VIII *, inscription "Carolus VIII Rex Galiae" at the top, wearing the mesh symbol and crown, most certainly during the first war in Italy (1494-1497) , in an old frame (XVIè-XVIIè) in blackened and gilded wood, period late 15th century.

This table is in good condition and is of exceptional quality (as well as its frame also old).

A note: old restoration (slot in the top stopper, visible on the back), some accidents on the frame, look at the photos.

* CHARLES VIII (1470-1498), king of France (1483-1498):


Son of Louis XI and Charlotte of Savoy, Charles became king on the death of his father. His sister, Anne de Beaujeu, in charge of the regency by Louis XI, kept a deep influence on the government after the majority of the king, proclaimed in 1484, but this provoked a rebellion of the princes who supported the claims of the younger male relative of the young King, the Duke of Orleans (future Louis XII). Charles VIII managed to marry Anne of Brittany in 1491, who was already married by proxy to Maximilien de Habsbourg. Obtained by the threat and at the cost of a real war, the marriage of Charles VIII did not bring about the immediate attachment of Brittany to France, but it prepared this attachment and above all made impossible the complete encirclement of the royal domain by the possessions of the house of Austria. The main business of the reign, however, was the expedition to Italy. To devote himself to it, Charles VIII had to let go of the ballast and abandon one of the most important acquisitions of his father, Roussillon and Cerdanya, which he ceded to the king of Aragon in 1492 and 1493, Franche-Comté , Artois and Charolais, which he ceded to Maximilien in 1493. The 1494 expedition was first of all a long series of victories, because the King of France appeared as a liberator of Italian cities, often subjected to real tyrannies : Florence, Rome and Naples gave the last of the Valois a triumphant welcome. One could believe that French power in Italy was going to become again what it was at the time of the first Angevins. But the royal army behaved as in conquered country and the Italians wished quickly to get rid of it: the war undertaken by the league of Venice, which animated the duke of Milan and the republic of Venice, returned to the French the stay in Italy impossible. After an indecisive battle in Fornovo, Charles VIII returned to France in 1495. The last places held in Italy were lost the following year. The benefit of the Italian campaign was elsewhere: a better knowledge of Italy, and of prodigious collections stolen from Florence and Rome, which went to enrich the French collections and made known in France, in new aspects, Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. Charles VIII died banging his head in the stone lintel of a door at the Chateau d'Amboise, while he was planning a new expedition. All of his children had died before him. (Cf Universalis)

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Data sheet

  • Cadre 68,8 cm x 83 cm
  • Panneau 43,5 cm x 58 cm