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French: Ile de France, King Louis XII,  c. 1500r
Wood with original polychrome (colour report available), height: 110 cm

 provenance: Metropolitan Museum (bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941)

Louis XII (1462-1515) wearing long gown beneath royal brown mantle strewn with fleur-de-lis in relief, opened on right side; on his head, jewelled crown with fleur-de-lis; on his neck, collar of the order of St. Michael.

Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941 to the Metrolpolitan Museum, New York

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