Gabriel Francois Louis Debrie - Portret van Johannes IV, koning van Portugal
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Portret van Johannes IV, koning van Portugal, zittend ten halven lijve, gekleed in harnas met scepter in zijn hand en kroon op tafel, in ovale omlijsting met lauwerkrans. Onder cartouche met wapen van Portugal geflankeerd door vrouwen en twee gevangenen zittend bij oorlogstrofeeën, het geheel binnen rechthoekige omlijsting.
A cartouche or cartouch is an oval design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low relief design. In Early Modern design, since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartoccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling (illustration, left). Another cartouche figures prominently in the title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery cartoccia.
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