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Portrait présumé de Gabrielle d'Estrées et de sa soeur la duchesse de
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Unknown author, circa 1594. The presumed subject of the painting
Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs by an unknown artist
(c.1594), is Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of King Henry IV of France.
In the painting, 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.
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