Henry IV and the Abbess.
Watercolour
24 x 20 cm
Monogrammed and dated lower left E.L./1875
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Paris, Me Coulon, 19 April 1899, n° 266 (1942Fr)
Marie-Catherine de Beauvilliers was a French nun born on 26 April 1574 in La Ferté-Hubert1 and died on 21 April 1657 in Montmartre.
She took the monastic habit in 1586 at the abbey of Beaumont-lès-Tours run by one of her aunts. She was appointed by Henry IV in 1598, abbess of Montmartre, which had been governed before her, from 1589 to 1594, by her sister Claude, who in May 1590, during the siege of Paris, had welcomed the French king Henry IV and had briefly become his mistress.
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