NO. 4 JACQUES LEMOYNE DE MORGUES— BUSHNELL 9 



Unfortunately the history of this very interesting d^-^*'* "™ j); 

 the author's collection, is not known; however, it ts poss.b e o reach 

 ertain conclttsions regarding its origin. The legend ,s ,n tahan and 

 this offers a clue as to the time the picture was -«."^"y ^^e^ ^^ 



The youthful Charles IX was K,ng of France m ■ 564. *e year of 

 the French expedition utrder Laudonmere to Florida, but all were 

 dominated by the Oueen-mother, Catherine de' Med.c, surrounded as 

 she was by gronps"of Italians who had accotjrpanied or followed her 

 to France. Italian was spoken at the French Court. 



Lemoyne had accompanied the expedmon to Florida for the pur 

 nose of preparing a series of drawitrgs and sketches, these, as he h,m- 

 self w J " I showed his majesty, when, after having escaped from 

 the remarkable perfidies and atrocious cruelties of the Spaniards, I 

 re urTto Fr^tce." And it may be assumed that all such work, 

 ^h Exhibited at Court, bore legends written in ^^^^ l^^^^Zs 

 in. of Satwwua Re ddia Florida, may have been one of the sketches 



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was able to save any drawings. All his possessions appear to have 



""^L"':;' S^mrLt starting for war, the subject of the drawing 

 J :e rci'ticed, occurred late in August, .564. LH. le -- 'tan ^ 

 mnnths later early in November, the second of the French vessels 



tZti suggested that the picture may have been made after 

 LaiXn i e aitd his small party, including Lemoyne, had returned 



and associates. 



