Two engravings, 1663 and 1667. Both signed and dated in the plate.

Both I. approximately 30.5 x 18.7 cm, both S. approximately 34.7 x 21.0 cm.

LeBlanc 114 and 115.

With three additional engravings:

Pierre Lombart (France 1611/12-1681). "Portrait Bust of Queen Christina of Sweden", 1668. Andresen 5

Nicolas Pitau (France 1670-1724). "Portrait of Gustaf Otto Stenbock", circa 1715.

Jonas Suyderhof (The Netherlands 1613-1686) After Pieter Soutman (The Netherlands 1580-1657). "Portrait of Władysław IV Vasa", circa 1645-1650. LeBlanc 74.

Charles X Gustav was King of Sweden from 1654 until his death in 1660. He was married to Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, who bore his son and successor, Charles XI. Charles X Gustav was the second Wittelsbach king of Sweden after the childless king Christopher of Bavaria (1441–1448) and he was the first king of the Swedish Caroline era, which had its peak during the end of the reign of his son, Charles XI. Charles Gustav's mother, Catherine of Sweden, and father, John Casimir, Count Palatine (of Zweibrücken-Kleeburg, had fled the Thirty Years' War and never went back to Germany. In his early childhood, raised in the Swedish court alongside his cousin Queen Christina, Charles Gustav received an excellent civil education. During his reign, he led Sweden during the Second Northern War (1655-1660), enlarging the Swedish Empire.

PROVENANCE
The collection of Engineer and Major Frank Bensow (1883-1969), each with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 982c).