Caption:
Portrait of King Francis I of France, 1494-1547. In a suit of black armour decorated in gold and silver, red skirt, holding a mace and the reins. Horse in plumes and caparison. Le Roi Francois Ier. Handcolored lithograph after an illustration by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard from Georges Duplessis's Costumes historiques des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Historical costumes of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries), Paris, 1867. Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard was an artist, book illustrator, and interior designer.