2-702-394 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Philipp Der Gute Von Burgund', (1933). Portrait of Philip, Duke of Burgundy, also known as Philip the Good (1396-1467), King of France from 1419. Philip is noted for his patronage of Flemish artists such as Jan van Eyck, and for the capture of Joan of Arc. After a Flemish miniature, made c1480. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]