Here again are the tufted hat, the bearded face, and the features of the picture of St Malo.

On the back of the wood, the deeply graven initials J.C.seemed to prove that the image which had lain hidden for generations behind the woodwork of the old Canadian house is indeed that of the great discoverer.

Beside the initials is carved the date 1704..

This wooden medallion would appear to have once figured as the stern shield of some French vessel, wrecked probably upon the Gaspe coast.

As it must have been made long before the St Malo portrait was painted, the resemblance of the two faces perhaps indicates the existence of some definite and genuine portrait of Jacques Cartier, of which the record has been lost.
It appears, therefore, that we have the right to be content with the picture which hangs in the town hall of the seaport of St Malo.