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Christian III, King of Denmark, 1503-1559 – Historic Print

Christian III, King of Denmark, 1503-1559, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
Christian III, King of Denmark, 1503-1559, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Christian III, King of Denmark, 1503-1559

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A member of the House of Oldenburg, Christian III ruled Denmark and Norway from 1534 until his death in 1559, and his reign brought the Lutheran Reformation to both kingdoms. This print reproduces a painting by Hyacinthe Rigaud, a French court portraitist born a century after the king died, so the likeness shows how a later artist imagined a Renaissance monarch rather than a sitting from life. The record gives no date for the print itself. Reproductions like this were often made to spread images of rulers through books and print collections.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print.
NotesRepro. of painting by Hyacinthe Rigaud. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I.; BI; Pub. Ind.; Shelf. Sources checked: LC/PREM.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,160 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156713

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