Mary, Queen of Scots with David Rizzio (or with Pierre de Bocosel de Chatelard)

After Louis Ducis French
 Publisher H. Mandeville French
 Sitter Mary, Queen of Scots Scottish

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This print reproduces "La Musique", a painting by Louis Ducis, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1822 and now at the Musée Municipal, Limoges. There is a related watercolor in the Louvre. It is one of a set of four works illustrating the arts of music, poetry, painting and sculpture through pairs of famous lovers. "La Musique" shows Mary Queen of Scots and her French secretary, David Rizzio. However some prints after the Ducis painting (possibly including this one), replace Rizzio with Pierre de Bocosel de Chatelard, a previous French secretary to the queen, whose indiscreet advances led to his execution in 1536.

Mary, Queen of Scots with David Rizzio (or with Pierre de Bocosel de Chatelard), After Louis Ducis (French, Versailles 1775–1847 Paris), Etching and engraving

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