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Plates and descriptions

Marguerite de France's Book of Hours

Marguerite de France, Duchess of Savoy. Prayer Book. Turin, Biblioteca Reale, MS var. 84, fol. 22. 1559

King Francis I

King Francis I. Attributed to Jean Clouet, Paris, Musee du Louvre, Departement des Peintures, INV 3256. 1525-1530

Queen Claude de France

. Center, Queen Claude de France; left, Daughers Charlotte de France and Marguerite de France, and Eleanor of Austria, Dowager Queen of France; rt., Daughters, Renee de France and,Madeleine de France. Paris, Bibl. nat. de France, MS nouv. acq. lat. 84, fol. 100, Hours of Catherine de Medici. Sixteenth Century

King Louis XII

King Louis XII Addressing Reason and Pointing to Queen Anne de Bretagne, Who Holds Their Daugher Claude de France. Petrarch, Des remedes de l'une et l'autre fortune. Anonymous French Translation. Paris, BnF, MS fr. 225, fol. 165. Circa 1503.

Queen Marguerite de Navarre

Queen Marguerite de Navarre. Francois Clouet. Chantilly, Musee Conde, Inv. MN 44. Circa 1540

Catherine de Medici

Catherine de' Medici as a Young Woman. Francois Clouet. Paris, BnF, Departement des Estampes et Photographie, Reserve NA-22 (4)-Boite, Planche 6. Circa 1540

King Henry II

King Henry II of France. Francois Clouet, Musee Conde, Chantilly, Inv. MN 29. Circa 1547

Marguerite de France

Marguerite de France, Duchess of Berry, as Minerva. Jean de Court . London, Wallace Collection, no. III F 253. 1555

Emmanuel Philibert

Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy,. Prayer Book.Turin, Bibl. Reale, MS var. 84, fol. 21. 1559

King Henry II

The Wounded King Henry II Blesses the Wedding of Marguerite de France, Duchess of Savoy, and Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, Francesco Polveri. Castello Ducale, Aglie . 1843-1844

Figure 12

Marguerite de France as a Child. Jean Clouet. Chantilly,Musee Conde Inv., MN 11. 1527-1528

Figure 13

Marguerite de france as a Young Woman . Francois Clouet. Chantilly, Musee Conde , Inv. MN 19. Circa. 1542

Figure 14

Marguerite de France at Age 23. Atelier of Franois Clouet.Musee Conde Chantilly, Inv. MN 21. Circa 1545

Figure 15

Marguerite de France at Age 24. Francois Clouet. Musee Conde Chantilly, Inv. MN 18. Circa 1546

Figure 16

Margueritte de France, Duchess of Berry. at Age 28.. Francois Clouet, Musee Conde, Chantilly, Inv. MN 20. Circa 1550

Figure 17

Margueritte de France, Duchess of Berry. Francois Clouet. Chantilly, Musee Conde, Inv. MN 22. Circa 1555

Figure 19

Marguerite de France, Duchess of Savoy, in Mourning Dress. Francois Clouet. London, British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, AN25106601. Circa 1560

Figure 20

Marguerite de France, Duchess of Savoy, and her son Charles Emmanuel, Future Duke of Savoy. Anonymous Artist. Royal Castle of Racconigi. Sixteenth Century

Figure 21a

a Marguerite de France, late Duchess of Savoy and Four Symbolic Medallions.. Lotello Anteo. Obverse. Funerary Plaque Dedicated to Her Memory by Bartolomeo Delbene. Paris, Musee du Louvre, Departement des Objets d'Art, OA2. 1576

Figure 21b

b. Reverse, Funerary Plaque Dedicated to Marguerite with Celebratory Verses by Bartolomeo Delbene. Lotello Anteo. 1576

Figure 22

Anne de France, Duchess of Bourbon Presented by St. John the Evangelist. Jean Hey. Paris, Musee du Louvre, Departement des Peintures, RF 535. 1492-1493

Figure 23

Margaret of Austria as a Young Girl. Jean Hey. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (1975.1.130) . Circa 1490

Figure 24

Charles VIII, King of France. Copy after Jean Perreal. Chantilly, Musee Conde, Inv. PE 576. Sixteenth Century.

Figure 25

Moulins Triptych. Jean Hey. Moulins, Cathedrale de Notre-Dame. Jean Hey. Left wing, Pierre, Duke of Bourbon Presented by St. Peter; Center, Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels; Right wing, Anne de France, Duchess of Bourbon , and Her Daughter, Suzanne de Bourbon Presented by St. Anne. 1498-1499

Figure 26

Queen Anne de Bretagne Praying before Sts. Anne, Ursula, and Helena. Jean Bourdichon. Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne, BnF, MS lat. 9474, fols. 2v.-3 Circa 1503-1508

Figure 27

The Dauphin Charles-Orland, son of Charles VIII and Anne de Bretagne. Jean Hey. Paris, Musee du Louvre, Departement des Peintures, RF 1942-28. 1494

Figure 28

The Second Coronation of Anne de Bretagne. Andre Delavigne, Description of the Coronation of Anne of Brittany, Her Entry into Paris, and Coronation Banquet. Waddesdon Manor, UK, James A. de Rothschild Collection, MS 22, fol. 1v. Circa 1505

Figure 29

Claude de france Presented by St. Claude to the Virgin and St. Anne, left; The Alphabet and Scenes from Genesis, right. Guido Mazzoni. The Primer of Claude de France. Cambridge, UK, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 159, fols. 1 and 1v. 1510-1515

Figure 30

Queen Anne de Bretagne Receiving the Book from the author. Antoine Dufour, Vie des femmes celebres. Attributed to Jean Perreal. Nantes, Musee Dobree. MS 17. Circa 1508

Figure 31

Queen Anne de Bretagne Writing to King Louis XII. Poetic Epistles of Anne of Brittany and Louis XII. Jean Bourdichon. St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, MS Fr. F.v.XIV.8, fol. 1 v. Circa 1510

Figure 32

Margaret of Austria, Regent of The Netherlands. Atelier of Bernard Van Orley. Brussels, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Inv. 4059.1515-1530

Figure 33

Louise de Savoie, Countess of Angouleme, as the Guide (Compass) to the Dauphin, the Future Francis I. Le compas du Dauphin, Paris, BnF, MS fr. 2285, fol. 5. Sixteenth Century

Figure 34

Louise de Savoie, Duchess of Angouleme, Receiving the Book from Two Councillors of Amiens. Chants royaux du Puy Notre Dame. Jean Pichore. Paris, BnF, MS fr. 145, fol. 1v. 1518

Louise de Savoie, Duchess of Angouleme, Guiding the Helm of the Shop of State with the Author of the Book at Her Feet. Etienne Le Blanc, Les gestes de Blanche de Castille. Paris, BnF, MS 5715, fol. Av. 1524-1526

Figure 36

The Coronation of Queen Claude de France. Probably Jean Coene IV. London, British Library, MS Stowe 582, fol. 35. Circa 1517

Figure 37

Queen Claude de France Receiving the Book from the Author. Anne de Graville, Le roman de Palamon et Arcita. Paris, Bibl. de l'Arsenal, MS 5116, fol. 1v.

Figure 38

Eleanor of Austria, Queen of France. Joos Van Cleve. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaldegalerie, inv. no. 6079. Circa 1530

Figure 39

Eleanor of Austria, Dowager Queen of France. Antoine Trouveon, 1547, Musee Conde, Chantilly, Inv. MN 25. 1547

Figure 40

Catherine de' Medici. Queen of France, later Queen Mother. Francois Clouet. Paris, BnF, Cabinet des Estampes, Na 22, reserve, boite 4, no. 8. Circa 1560

Figure 41

Rome, San Pietro in Montorio, Tempietto. Donato Bramante. 1502-1508