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                               CHANTILLY

[Illustration: _Mary Stuart at the age of nine years from the drawing in
the Musée Condé at Chantilly._]




                               CHANTILLY

                           IN HISTORY AND ART

                          BY LOUISE M. RICHTER

                          (MRS. J. P. RICHTER)

                    WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

                                 LONDON

                   JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

                                  1913


                          ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


                           TO MY DEAR FRIEND
                            MRS. LUDWIG MOND
                         THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED




PREFACE


My first visit to Chantilly was in April 1904, when the Exhibition of
the French Primitives at the Pavillon Marsan, following close on that at
Bruges, raised interest and comment far outside the boundaries of
France. I visited the Musée Condé with the intention of studying some
more examples of the French fifteenth-and sixteenth-century art which
had so much attracted me in Paris.

The high expectations I had conceived were not disappointed, and the
result was that my studies in that marvellous collection were prolonged.
Weeks grew into months. The Limbourgs, Jean Fouquet, and the Clou