2-720-454 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'César duc de Vendôme', 1596, (1907). Portrait of French noble César, Duke of Vendôme as a baby. De Bourbon (1594-1665) was the illegitimate son of Henry IV of France and his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées, and founder of the House of Bourbon-Vendome. He held the titles of 1st Duke of Vendôme, 2nd Duke of Beaufort and 2nd Duke of Étampes. After a drawing of 1596 by Benjamin Foulon, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. From "Exposition de Portraits, peints et dessinés", (Exhibition of painted and drawn portraits), catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale, April-June 1907. [Librairie Centrale Des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1907]