Jean Hey, 1490 - Margaret of Austria - fine art print

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This 15th century artwork "Margaret of Austria" was painted by the male artist Jean Hey in 1490. The original version of the work of art measures the size: 12 7/8 x 9 1/8 in (32,7 x 23 cm) and was made with the technique oil on oak panel. The artwork belongs to the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (public domain). : Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has an image ratio of 1 : 1.4, meaning that the length is 29% shorter than the width. Jean Hey was a male illuminator, painter of French nationality, whose art style was mainly Northern Renaissance. The French artist lived for a total of 24 years - born in 1475 and died in the year 1499.

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The daughter of Emperor Maximilian I, Margaret of Austria was betrothed at the age of three to the infant dauphin Charles, the future Charles VIII, and served briefly as "queen of France" from 1483 to 1491. She is shown here around the age of ten, one year before she was repudiated by her intended husband. The initials C and M within the border of Margaret's collar (backwards C in the left border) probably signify their union. The chain of gold shells on her headdress may be part of the armorial insignia of the Bourbon dynasty with which she was then associated. The elaborate pendant of a pelican piercing its breast to draw blood with which to feed its young (the blood represented by the large hanging ruby), a symbol of Christian charity, alludes to the sitter's piety. These elements are mounted on a gold fleur-de-lis. Demonstrably showing her faith, Margaret holds a large gold filagree Paternoster bead of her rosary and looks to the right, presumably toward (what was originally) the object of her devotion. This panel likely formed the left of a diptych, whose right wing, now lost, may have represented a subject from Christ's Passion.

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