The Health of the King

Description Five gentlemen, grouped around a table, toast the King. One page is replenishing a wine glass while another stands in attendance. Set in a Renaissance chimney piece in the right background is a marble bust of Henri IV of France. The wall at the left is covered with crimson fabric decorated with fleurs-de-lys and emblazoned with the arms of France and Navarre. Discernible on the lace-covered table is a Chinese pheasant that is being served in its skin. A large copper wine cooler dominates the right foreground.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
4/21/1980	Examination	examined for condition
5/01/1980	Treatment	cleaned; coated

Exhibitions

• Free Exhibition of New Pictures. Knoedler & Co., New York. 1866.
• Salute to Belgium. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1980.
• Artful Dining: The Exhibition. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1994.
• From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2014-2016.

Provenance Duc de Morny Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Duc de Morny Sale, Paris, May 31, 1865, no. 35 (?); Goupil et Cie [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Knoedler and Co. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] Lower right: F. Williems; [Signature] Reverse center: F. Williems; [Stencil] Paris stenciled effaced; [Number] In pencil: No. 12; [Number] In black crayon: G 1677

Credit Acquired by William T. after 1865 or Henry Walters