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FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO LONDON
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by her), and the other on her quiver1. There were divers
other Statues of Gods and Godesses of great Antiquitie,
as appeared by their Duskie coulour of Marble-, also, in
the midle, there hunge downe from the rooffe a Spheire
which (as they say) would shew the moveings of the
Heavens, Ecclipses, etts. motions of the Sunn, Moone and
Starrs ; but then it was out of frame.
From thence to an other large Hall, where were pictured
divers Kings and Queenes of France, The Kings with their
Sonnes on th' one side, and the Queenes with their daughters
on the other3. Att the upper end stood King Henry 4th.
with his Queene Marie de Medicis, on whose gowne the
Painter had soe farr strained his Art that it almost de-
ceaved the sight, soe exquisitly shadowed that it really
appeared to bee blew velvett. Her picture by report cost
6000 Crownes the makeinge4.
From thence to the longe Gallery, conteyning from
one end to an other about 600 ordinary stepps of a man,
the one side full of windowes, lookeing downe into the
River and the Kings Gardens5, full of curious knotts and
rare Inventions, the other side of the said Gallery was
plaine, but intended to bee adorned with excellent Statues
1 " Diane a la biche," among the "Ancient Sculptures," in the Salle
du Tibre. Compare Coulon, Le Fidele Conditcteur, p. 49, " Le
Louvre____On y void une sale des Antiques remplie de pieces curieuses,
comme est une Diane d'Ephese."
2 The author is alluding to the "Ancient Sculptures" in the Musee
des marbres antiques. See Coryat's Crudities, vol. i. p. 173.
3 Sec Coryat's Crudities, vol. i. p. 174, and Symonds' description
of the Louvre, quoted in Appendix G. See also Coulon, Le Fidele
Conditctcur, pp. 25 and 49.
4 This full length portrait of Marie de Medicis, which is still in the
Louvre, was painted by Pourbus (1540—1622).
6 Compare Sloa?ie MS. 2142, fol. 3 (1658), "There is a very fine
garden belonging to it [the Louvre], at one side whereof is a high
Alley al paved with stone, and set al along with Orange trees. There
is also a very faire gallery on another part of the house furnished
with the Pictures of many of the Kings and Queenes of France. Out
of this gallery there is another, which goes al along the River and
is soe long that the end of it can be very hardly discovered." See
also Coulon, Le Fidele Conductcur, p. 39.
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by her), and the other on her quiver1. There were divers
other Statues of Gods and Godesses of great Antiquitie,
as appeared by their Duskie coulour of Marble-, also, in
the midle, there hunge downe from the rooffe a Spheire
which (as they say) would shew the moveings of the
Heavens, Ecclipses, etts. motions of the Sunn, Moone and
Starrs ; but then it was out of frame.
From thence to an other large Hall, where were pictured
divers Kings and Queenes of France, The Kings with their
Sonnes on th' one side, and the Queenes with their daughters
on the other3. Att the upper end stood King Henry 4th.
with his Queene Marie de Medicis, on whose gowne the
Painter had soe farr strained his Art that it almost de-
ceaved the sight, soe exquisitly shadowed that it really
appeared to bee blew velvett. Her picture by report cost
6000 Crownes the makeinge4.
From thence to the longe Gallery, conteyning from
one end to an other about 600 ordinary stepps of a man,
the one side full of windowes, lookeing downe into the
River and the Kings Gardens5, full of curious knotts and
rare Inventions, the other side of the said Gallery was
plaine, but intended to bee adorned with excellent Statues
1 " Diane a la biche," among the "Ancient Sculptures," in the Salle
du Tibre. Compare Coulon, Le Fidele Conditcteur, p. 49, " Le
Louvre____On y void une sale des Antiques remplie de pieces curieuses,
comme est une Diane d'Ephese."
2 The author is alluding to the "Ancient Sculptures" in the Musee
des marbres antiques. See Coryat's Crudities, vol. i. p. 173.
3 Sec Coryat's Crudities, vol. i. p. 174, and Symonds' description
of the Louvre, quoted in Appendix G. See also Coulon, Le Fidele
Conditctcur, pp. 25 and 49.
4 This full length portrait of Marie de Medicis, which is still in the
Louvre, was painted by Pourbus (1540—1622).
6 Compare Sloa?ie MS. 2142, fol. 3 (1658), "There is a very fine
garden belonging to it [the Louvre], at one side whereof is a high
Alley al paved with stone, and set al along with Orange trees. There
is also a very faire gallery on another part of the house furnished
with the Pictures of many of the Kings and Queenes of France. Out
of this gallery there is another, which goes al along the River and
is soe long that the end of it can be very hardly discovered." See
also Coulon, Le Fidele Conductcur, p. 39.