Portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrées and her sister, the Duchess of Villars, 1594, School of Fontainebleau
The presumed subject of the painting Gabrielle d'Estrees et une de ses soeurs by an unknown artist (), Gabrielle d'Estrees, in which she and her sister are depicted in an incestuous setting. Gabrielle sits up nude in a bath, holding (assumedly) Henry's coronation ring, whilst her sister sits nude beside her and pinches her right nipple. Henry gave Gabrielle the ring as a token of his love shortly before she died. This painting is interesting in that everything is peculiarly left-handedly-biased. Gabrielle's sister is pinching her right nipple with her left hand, d'Estrées is holding what is said to be King Henry VI of France’s coronation ring with her left hand, and the seamstress in the background is sewing with her left hand. Additionally, the painting hanging in the background is of the lower body of a naked person, rumored to be a man holding his penis with his left hand France
Size: 5433px × 3555px
Photo credit: © Peter Horree / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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