Old Polish costume - Queen Marie Therese of France with her son

Salvete Omnes
another short entry -
I would like to bring to your attention and invite you to take a look at this wonderfully rendered portrait of the Her Majesty Queen of France Marie Therese (1638-1683), queen-consort to Louis XIV (1643-1715), and their son Louis Le Grand Dauphin (1661-1711),  dressed in Old Polish costume, about two years since the queen bore their son.
 The wedding of the royal couple was a great event between the Bourbon court and Spanish Hapsburg court, among other it was celebrated in many artworks, including prints, eg here they are portrayed together, or this entry into Paris).

Luis' birth was celebrated with the grand carousel, or a very courtly and sumptous equestrian display - perhaps in my next post I will point you to a number of prints produced in association with this equestrian parade.

In this painting Marie Therese and little Louis were dressed up for a masquerade party where participants were dressed as Polish nobles.
More detail - queen and son


 Louis alone, in his little Polish noble costume with a miniature war-ax



and finally a small print of Marie Therese on horseback


Valete!

Joseph Parrocel et al - French Ladies on horseback

Salvete Omnes,
1st post this very first day of October. Let us hope for a good month, although our world is in turmoil and will grow more so, I think.
via Wiki Commons, we can enjoy the exquisite equestrian paintings of the French XVII century painter - Joseph Parrocel.
 The already known to us Swedish Skokloster Castle contains in their collection the series of 6 XVII century equestrian paintings  - as wiki Commons states:

[...] all depicting 

Ladies of the French high court on horseback with similar landscape views in the 

background painted for Louis Marie Victoire, Duc d´Aumont. 

The paintings were given as a gift to or bought by the Swedish ambassador 

Count Nils Bielke during his stay in Paris 1679-82. 

The series were later transferred from Bielkes castle at Salsta 

to Skokloster Castle in 1756. All six paintings bear the 

inscription Pour Monseigr Le Duc Daumont on the back of the canvas.

 . Francoise Madeleine Claude Madame La Comtesse de Saint Geran,  born de Warignes

 

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 Marie-Anne de Bouillon f. Mancini

 

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 Catherine de Neuville d'Harcourt-Armagnac

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 Francoise-Angeligue de la Motte d´Houdancourt (daughter of Duke of Cardona)

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 also a daughter of Duke of Cardona  la Madame La Duchesse de la Ferte-Senneterre, Marie Isabelle Gabrielle Angelique de Lamotte-Houdancourt

 

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 Anne de Souvree, marquise de Louvois, wife to the minister of war of Louis XIV

 

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valete

Nicolas Lagneau - Polish drawings

Salvete Omnes,
no horses this time (soon, very soon there will be back) - so a quick time travel into the world of French draughtsman Nicolas Lagneau and his often grotesque drawings.
Gallica, French National Library, has in their collection many wash drawings of master Lagneau, including two portraits of Polish men, There are more of these portraits that might show Polish costumes - eg this one.
Young Polish man

Gallica

 
Old Polish man (with a war hammer)

Gallica

Valete!

ps
love the idea of digitilization of prints, drawings, paintigs, manuscripts and old books that is so prolific in continental Europe. Time travel with no end - :)