French 16th Century

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French 16th Century, French 17th Century, Henri IV, 1553-1610, King of France 1589, c. 1590/1610, gilded bronze, Gift of Lisa Unger Baskin, 2001.131.1

Henri IV, 1553-1610, King of France 1589

French 16th Century, French 17th Century · c. 1590/1610 · gilded bronze ·  Accession ID  2001.131.1

French 16th Century, German 16th Century, Netherlandish 16th Century, Decollation of the Baptist, c. 1585, bronze, Gift of Lisa and Leonard Baskin, 1995.27.5

Decollation of the Baptist

French 16th Century, German 16th Century, Netherlandish 16th Century · c. 1585 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1995.27.5

French 16th Century, French 17th Century, Bacchus with a Panther, late 16th or early 17th century, bronze, Gift of Robert H. Smith/Robert H. Smith Collection, 2022.181.41

Bacchus with a Panther

French 16th Century, French 17th Century · late 16th or early 17th century · bronze ·  Accession ID  2022.181.41

French 16th Century, Holofernes Interrogating Achior, c. 1575, hand-colored woodcut on laid paper, Gift of Hubert and Michèle Prouté and Family, in memory of Jean Adhémar and Paul Prouté, and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.201.1

Holofernes Interrogating Achior

French 16th Century · c. 1575 · hand-colored woodcut on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.201.1

French 16th Century, Judith Goes to the Camp of Holofernes, c. 1575, hand-colored woodcut on laid paper, Gift of Hubert and Michèle Prouté and Family, in memory of Jean Adhémar and Paul Prouté, and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.201.2

Judith Goes to the Camp of Holofernes

French 16th Century · c. 1575 · hand-colored woodcut on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.201.2

A clean-shaven, pale-skinned man wearing all white, a black-speckled white fur cape, and brimless black hat stands and looks at us in this full-length, vertical portrait painting. The man’s body and face are angled to our right, but he looks at us from the corners of his brown eyes under dark, curved brows. He has a slightly bulbous nose, the suggestion of a cleft chin, and his thin, pink lips are closed. His brown hair is cut short under the cap, which has a high crown. The hat is lined with jeweled gold medallions and pearls around the bottom edge, and the barbs of the white feather flicker like a busy flame. The lace-edged ruff, which is pleated in figure eights, hugs his chin and the back of his neck. The high-collared, white, long-sleeved jacket is textured in narrow, horizontal bands. A narrow black belt decorated with silver trim and pearls loops around his waist, and a sword hangs from the far hip. The white-on-white patterned breeches puff out at the waist and are gathered high on the thigh, like puffy shorts. He wears smooth, cream-white stockings and the same color slippers. The hip-length fur cape hooks over the far shoulder, and that hand rests on the pearled hilt of a thin sword. His other elbow is bent, and he holds a pair of gold and brown-colored gloves in that hand. The first two fingers are extended to lie along the fabric of his pants. The wall behind the man is earthy green and the floor a rosy peach. Gold text in the upper left corner of the painting reads, “FRANCOIS DVC DALENCON EAGE DE XVIII ANS LE XIXE IONR DE MARS AN 1572 FILS DE HENRŸ II DE CE NO ROŸ DE FRANCE.”
French 16th Century, Prince Hercule-François, Duc d'Alençon, 1572, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.55

Prince Hercule-François, Duc d'Alençon

French 16th Century · 1572 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1961.9.55

French 16th Century, François de Mandelot, 1529-1588, governor of Lyon 1571, 1572, bronze, The Hester Diamond Fund, 2014.59.1

François de Mandelot, 1529-1588, governor of Lyon 1571

French 16th Century · 1572 · bronze ·  Accession ID  2014.59.1

French 16th Century, Susanna and the Elders, c. 1570s, gilded bronze, Gift of the Honorable Andrew M. Brown, 1996.83.1

Susanna and the Elders

French 16th Century · c. 1570s · gilded bronze ·  Accession ID  1996.83.1

Shown from the chest up, a pale-skinned man wearing a ruffled collar and ornately decorated doublet looks at us from the corners of his eyes in this vertical portrait painting. His shoulders and face angle to our left, but he gazes steadily our way with bright blue eyes under low, thin brows. He has a straight nose with a rounded tip, and his coral-pink lips are closed under a faint suggestion of a mustache and perhaps a beard. His short brown hair is brushed back from his high forehead, and his white collar curls in figure eights high along his chin and up the back of his neck. His doublet is brown patterned with gold horizontal stripes lined with silver zig-zags. Flower-shaped buttons lead down the front of his doublet from a high collar, and a long gold chain falls out of view below the bottom edge of the painting. His ivory-white sleeves have slashes in rows of alternating diagonals separated by gold embroidery. The background is dark ash brown.
French 16th Century, Portrait of a Nobleman, c. 1570, oil on fir or pine, Chester Dale Collection, 1942.16.1

Portrait of a Nobleman

French 16th Century · c. 1570 · oil on fir or pine ·  Accession ID  1942.16.1

French 16th Century, Portrait of a Member of the Quaratesi Family, 1561, oil on probably oak, Gift of Mrs. Rush Kress in memory of her late husband Rush Kress and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.14.1

Portrait of a Member of the Quaratesi Family

French 16th Century · 1561 · oil on probably oak ·  Accession ID  1991.14.1