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Antoine Caron
(1521 - 1599)
Les Rois de France
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
Clotaire II (584-629)
Louis IX (king of France) (1214-1270)
Pharamond
Dagobert I (626-639)
Hugh Capet (c.941-996)
Charlemagne (742-814)
Philip IV of France (1268-1314)
Charles II (823-877)
Artemisia I (queen of Halicarnassus)
Allegory (all)
figure study
coat of arms
Louis Ier (778-840)
Henry II (king of France) (1519-1559)
Philip II of France (1165-1223)
Pippin III (c.714-768)
book (illustrated)
Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589)
mannerism
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About the artwork
Title:
Les Rois de France
Periods:
16th century
renaissance
XVIth century
Techniques:
wash with brown
black chalk
brown ink
beige paper
white highlights
pen (drawing)
Dimensions:
412 x 555
Inventory number:
RF29752-8-recto
Detail:
Ce dessin appartient à une série de dessins exécutés pour "L'Histoire Françoyse de nostre temps", manuscrit commandé par Nicolas Houel, apothicaire, et donné à Catherine de Médicis
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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