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Gabrielle d’Estrées: The Woman Who Nearly Became Queen of France

Few royal mistresses wielded as much influence as Gabrielle d’Estrées. As the beloved companion of King Henry IV of France, she was far more than a favorite at court. Gabrielle bore the king several children, served as one of his closest political advisers, and encouraged his conversion to Catholicism—a pivotal decision that helped bring stability to a nation torn apart by decades of religious conflict.

Henry IV openly acknowledged his devotion to Gabrielle and reportedly intended to marry her, despite the controversy such a union would have caused. She was even granted titles and honors that suggested she was being prepared for a royal future. However, those hopes ended abruptly when Gabrielle died suddenly in 1599 at just 26 years old, only months before the king's marriage plans could become reality. Her untimely death altered the course of French history and remains one of the great "what ifs" of the Bourbon monarchy.

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#Repost @lets_talk_about_art (@get_repost) ・・・ School of Fontainebleau, Double Portrait of Two Women Bathing, 1580, oil on panel, 129 x 97 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. In French painting, the term "Fontainebleau School" describes the Mannerist painting and decorative sculpture, as well as the Italianate architecture, produced for the French court, under the patronage of Francis I and his successors, at the royal Chateau of Fontainebleau. From the beginning, the School was inspired by Renaissance art from Italy, which Francis held in especially high regard. As a result, the leading participants in this renaissance of French decorative art were the Italian artists Francesco Primaticcio and Rosso Fiorentino. With the assistance of a number of French and Flemish artists, these two created a distinctive style of French Mannerism; elegant, sensual, sophisticated, expressed in a unique blending of mural painting combined with intricate stucco ornament. Although very much in the style of the Fontainebleau school, this work remains anonymous. It shows the influence of Italian Renaissance art in the sensual contours of the bodies of the two young women, but also contains references to Flemish art. The models have been identified as Gabrielle d'Estrées, the favorite of Henry IV, and one of her sisters: the Duchess de Villars or Madame de Balagny. There have been at least four double portraits of Gabrielle d'Estrées with one of her sisters. All of the portraits are painted with the subjects sitting together nude in a bathtub with a red curtain behind them. The oddly affectionate way in which the sister is pinching Gabrielle d'Estrées' ring finger in this painting has often been taken as symbolizing the latter's loyalty to Henry IV. #gabrielledestrees #schooloffontainebleau #fontainebleauschool #fontainebleau #mannerism #historyofart #arthistory #historiadelarte #kunstgeschichte #histoiredelart #storiadellarte