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Catherine de' Medici

Catherine de' Medici

with her four youngest children, Hercule-Francis, Charles IX., Marguerite and Henry III. (from left to right), c. 1561


 

Catherine de' Medici


 

Catherine de' Medici


 

Catherine de' Medici

Catherine de' Medici and her husband, the French King Henry II., as "Pomona und Vertumnus" (as usual for such a scene from the Greek-Roman mythology, Henry II. is shown as a young man and an old woman)


 

Catherine de' Medici


 

Catherine de' Medici


 

Catherine de' Medici


 

Catherine de' Medici


 

Catherine de' Medici


 

Catherine de' Medici


 

Catherine de' Medici and her husband, the French King Henry II.