Western Art Drawings Collection

Anonymous (French)

Portrait of Catherine de'Medici, 

Whiteley (2000) 39

Black and red chalk with yellow watercolour on medium weight, stained off-white paper.  Sheet: 299 x 226 mm

Verso: Inscribed in brown ink by Douce: By Janet; and in graphite: Q Regent / Q.Me d'Angouleme M. of Francis 1

Collector's Mark:&Nbsp; : Douce (L. 987), lower right

Provenance:&Nbsp; : Thomas Dodd

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834, and transferred from the Bodleian Library, 1863.; 

WA1863.4