Cardinal de Granvelle's Dwarf explained

Cardinal de Granvelle's Dwarf or Cardinal de Gravelle's Dwarf Holding a Large Dog is a c.1560 oil on panel painting by Antonis Mor.[1] It shows a person with dwarfism in the household of Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, resting one hand on a dog (whose collar bears Perrenot de Granvelle's coat of arms, only identified as such in 1899) and holding a sceptre in another.[2] [3] It formed part of superintendent Nicolas Fouquet's collection before being seized from him by Louis XIV and is now in the Louvre Museum (INV 1583).[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BALaT entry.
  2. Web site: Joconde entry.
  3. Web site: Louvre Collections entry.
  4. Gabrielle Bartz and Eberhard König, Le Musée du Louvre, éditions Place des Victoires, Paris, 2005,, p. 478

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