Calender for 1659: Allegory on the Submission of Flanders to Louis XIV, Calendar for 1659: Allegory on the Submission of Flanders to Louis XIV, Almanach, pour l'an de grace mil six cent cinquante-neuf (title on object), La Flandre Despouillée des habits d'Espagne et revestue a la Françoise (title on object), France, dressed in cloak with Fleur-de-lis strips Flanders (Spanish Netherlands) of her Spanish clothes to envelop her in her new French dress which is handed to her in the background. On the left is a soldier with a drawn sword. Above, angels hold a medal with the portrait of Louis XIV. The scene is framed by six medallions, four of which depict the battles of the French monarch, interspersed with decorative weaponry and vegetation. At the bottom is a cartouche with the calendar of the year 1659. In October 1659, the Peace of the Pyrenees ended the Franco-Spanish War., print maker: Jean Lepautre, (mentioned on object), after own design by: Jean Lepautre, (mentioned on object), publisher: Nicolas de Poilly (I), (mentioned on object), France, 1659, paper, engraving, etching, letterpress printing, height 514 mm × width 368 mm, height 538 mm × width 396 mm
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