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Antoine Caron
(1521 - 1599)
Les cendres du roi portées par la reine
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
figure study
book (illustrated)
Allegory (all)
mort (personne)
landscape background
coat of arms
mannerism
fond d'architecture
Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589)
Artemisia I (queen of Halicarnassus)
group
queen
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About the artwork
Title:
Les cendres du roi portées par la reine
Periods:
16th century
renaissance
XVIth century
Techniques:
black chalk
wash with brown
beige paper
black ink
pen (drawing)
white highlights
brown ink
Dimensions:
395 x 537
Inventory number:
RF29728-Bis-2-recto
Detail:
"L'Histoire françoise de nostre temps", dont l'apothicaire Nicolas Houel écrivit les sonnets et dont il confia l'illustration, "sous forme de cartons de peinture de blanc et noir façonnez par les excellentz peinctres de France et d'Italie", fut élaborée durant le règne de Charles IX, entre 1560 et 1574. Elle comporte, dans l'état actuel de notre connaissance, 27 dessins de la main d'Antoine Caron
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Antoine Caron
Also known as:
Antoine Charon
Born:
1521
Dead:
1599
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Antoine Caron
(1521–1599) was a French master glassmaker, illustrator, Northern Mannerist painter and a product of the School of Fontainebleau. He is one of the few French painters of his time who had a pronounced artistic personality. His work reflects the refined, although highly unstable, atmosphere at the court of the House of Valois during the French Wars of Religion of 1560 to 1598.
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