La Prière (Prayer)

Richard Parkes Bonington British
Printer Langlumé French
Publisher Sazerac French

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Bonington based these kneeling figures on funerary monuments he had sketched at Westminster Abbey in 1825, but altered the faces to resemble Henry IV and Marie de' Medici, the king and queen of France portrayed by Rubens in a series at the Louvre.

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