EditorialTop left compartment: Mercy, a crowned female figure standing on a wolf, holding a pink medallion carrying a hen and chicks. She throws a garment over a semi-naked male figure. The wolf seizes a lamb between the man's legs (inscribed above 'misericorde...
EditorialAimery de Guillaume Berard, French knight, condottiere and commander of the Florentine army at the battle of Campaldino, 1289. He wears a helmet, chainmail suit of armour, tunic with fleurs de lys on blue, cuisses and greaves, shoes and spurs. He is ar...
EditorialAimery de Guillaume Berard, French knight, condottiere and commander of the Florentine army at the battle of Campaldino, 1289. He wears a helmet, chainmail suit of armour, tunic with fleurs de lys on blue, cuisses and greaves, shoes and spurs. He is ar...
EditorialArtist: Charles Francois Hutin, French, 1715-1776, Feeding the Hungry, from the series Sept Oeuvres de?Misericorde, Etching, sheet: 24 ? 17.8 cm (9 7/16 ? 7?in.), Made in France, French, 18th?century, Works on Paper -?Prints.
EditorialAimery de Guillaume Berard, French knight, condottiere and commander of the Florentine army at the battle of Campaldino, 1289. He wears a helmet, chainmail suit of armour, tunic with fleurs de lys on blue, cuisses and greaves, shoes and spurs. He is ar...
EditorialAimery de Guillaume Berard, French knight, condottiere and commander of the Florentine army at the battle of Campaldino, 1289. He wears a helmet, chainmail suit of armour, tunic with fleurs de lys on blue, cuisses and greaves, shoes and spurs. He is ar...
EditorialNun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, Religieuse de Notre-Dame de la Misericorde. Handcoloured woodblock engraving after an illustration by Jacques Charles Bar from Abbot Tirons Histoire et Costumes des Ordres Religieux, Librairi...
EditorialTop left compartment: Mercy, a crowned female figure standing on a wolf, holding a pink medallion carrying a hen and chicks. She throws a garment over a semi-naked male figure. The wolf seizes a lamb between the man's legs (inscribed above 'misericorde...
EditorialPortrait of Louise de la Misericorde, alias Francoise de La Baume Le Blanc de la Valliere, Jacob Gole, Nicolaas Visscher (II), Dutch Republic, 1670-1724.
EditorialValet or servant, 14th century. He wears a short velvet tunic with puff sleeves, red stockings, cracows or poulaines, and a dagger or misericorde. He carries a gold chalice. From a print in the Gaignieres collection at the Bibliotheque du Roi. Handcolo...
EditorialAimery de Guillaume Berard, French knight, condottiere and commander of the Florentine army at the battle of Campaldino, 1289. He wears a helmet, chainmail suit of armour, tunic with fleurs de lys on blue, cuisses and greaves, shoes and spurs. He is ar...
EditorialLord in the court of King John II of France, Jean le Bon, 14th century. He wears a robe of red damask with long hood and sleeves, black belt with dagger (misericorde) and document purse. The table is covered in a rich oriental fabric of gold wool. From...
EditorialInfantry sergeant, 13th century. He wears a scarlet hat, white jaque (shirt), steel corselet (bodice), tunic with sleeves of violet damask, white stockings and cracows (poulaines). Dagger or misericorde in a red scabbard. Handcoloured copperplate drawn...
EditorialJean le Bon, John II, King of France, military costume, 1319-1364. He wears a helmet with crown and plume, suit of plate armour, pelisse in gold wool lined with red velvet, and holds a dagger (misericorde). From a miniature in the first volume of Frois...
EditorialCostume of a French page, 14th century. He wears a plumed velvet toque, green surcoat, justaucorps in different colours, and dagger (misericorde). From the Gaignieres collection. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "Fren...
EditorialAimery de Guillaume Berard, French knight, condottiere and commander of the Florentine army at the battle of Campaldino, 1289. He wears a helmet, chainmail suit of armour, tunic with fleurs de lys on blue, cuisses and greaves, shoes and spurs. He is ar...