Jean Desmaretz presenting a book to Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, 1491-1499. The queen wears a cape bretonne adorned with pearls, cordeliere belt and sits on a cross-shaped throne. Presentation de manuscript, France, fin du XVe siecle. From the manuscript peom La magnifique victoire du roi tres-chretien Louis XII, MS 9707, Bibliotheque Imperiale. Chromolithograph by Ferdinand Sere and Auguste Racinet from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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