Note 630 — Chapter I · SUMMARY.

This group forms the subject of the vignette on the title-page of the present volume of our royal biographies, the noble possessor having courteously allowed it to be copied and engraved for that purpose, for which our acknowledgments are gratefully offered, as well as for the like privilege accorded by his Lordship in regard to the portrait of Queen Magdalene, from the companion picture. Both these fine historical pieces originally decorated the royal gallery of the Luxembourg, and were purchased, after the Revolution at Paris, by that celebrated connoisseur in the fine arts, the late Earl of Elgin.