His reign was dominated by civil wars and the infamous massacre of French Protestants on St Bartholomew’s Eve.
King Charles IX, Duke of Orleans as child, 16th c.
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Jeanne d’Albret Queen of Navarre. 16th century.
Jeanne d’Albret was one of the most active and influential women in France around the middle of the 16th century.
The schoolmistress by Jean Honoré Fragonard
French Rococo. The schoolmistress – Dites donc s’il vous plaît c.1780 by Jean Honoré Fragonard
Innocence Carried Away by Love, or The Triumph of Hymen.
L’Innocence entraînée par l’Amour ou le Triomphe de l’Hymen (c.1750). Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
Catherine de Médici. The kings mother.
Portraiture at the court of the Valois
Femme en Bergère by Largillierre 18th c.
Portrait of a woman as Astrée, probably Mary Josephine Drummond, Condesa de Castelblanco, by Largillierre.
Le Billet Doux. The Love Letter by Jean Honoré Fragonard
A Love-scene typical of the art of Louis the Fifteenth’s day.
Sarah Garay Brunsden, Lady Lyndhurst
1st wife of John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Ralph Barton. Sketch for a catalogue cover, c. 1918.
Caricature of Flappers Wearing Furs. The work of American designers 1918.
Lady Maria Theresa Lewis, 1834.
British writer and biographer.