Iron plate embossed in high relief, silver damascened, on a golden background representing Marguerite de Valois in bust. In court dress, Queen Margot is dressed in a dress with slashed sleeves and a high collar, as well as a lace shirt; her hair is raised on an arcelet and partly covered by an attifet topped by a crown; she wears pearl jewels, dangling earrings, a row on the attifet and a necklace to which a cross is attached.
Paris, workshop of Guillaume Dupré (Sissone, circa 1576 - Paris, 1643)..., late 16th/early 17th century
Height: 16.8 cm - Width: 14.2 cm
(minor wear)
These small portraits in repoussé iron, enhanced with inlays of precious metals such as gold or silver, represent courtly figures, most often belonging to the royal circle. This is probably Marguerite de France or Marguerite de Valois, known in the 19th century as "Queen Margot", who was born in 1533 and died in 1615. The fashion of dress and the crown worn refer to this emblematic figure of the late Renaissance. Daughter of Henry II and Catherine de Medici, she was twice queen, first as Queen of Navarre through her marriage to Henry of Navarre in 1572, and then as Queen of France when her husband ascended the throne as Henry IV in 1589. A 1578 portrait in the Musée Carnavalet shows her wearing this same type of crown (fig.).
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