CAROLA BURBONIA… (portrait of Charlotte de Bourbon)

Beschrijving

Portrait of Charlotte de Bourbon (1547-1582) the third wife of William of Orange. Half-length portrait of the richly dressed woman with a hand on the table in front of her. In each corner female personifications of the four elements with biblical scene in the background; in strapwork symbols related to the elements. Inscribed on the oval frame: ‘CAROLA BVRBONIA D.G. PRIN. AVR. CO: NASS. &C. AET. ANN. XXIII A. M.LXXXI’. Latin captions below the representations of the elements; four lines of Latin text in cartouche at the bottom centre: ‘Huius me curae… lustrabit lampade Solis’.