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Catherine de Médicis (2022)Oil painting by Nicolas Maureau
97 x 130 x 2cm / 97 x 130cm (actual image size)
£2,604.9
Original artwork description
In the series En majesté Nicolas Maureau revisits the royal portrait.
He draws inspiration for this interpretation of Queen Catherine de Medici from half-body portraits of the Renaissance.
Catherine is represented as a widow holding a red scarf, a code borrowed from bullfighting as a sign of death, in reference to the black legend of the queen which makes her one of the instigators of the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Materials used:
oil painting
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 97 x 130 x 2cm / 97 x 130cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#queen#black#historical portrait#great figure
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Original artwork description
In the series En majesté Nicolas Maureau revisits the royal portrait.
He draws inspiration for this interpretation of Queen Catherine de Medici from half-body portraits of the Renaissance.
Catherine is represented as a widow holding a red scarf, a code borrowed from bullfighting as a sign of death, in reference to the black legend of the queen which makes her one of the instigators of the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Materials used:
oil painting
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 97 x 130 x 2cm / 97 x 130cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#queen#black#historical portrait#great figure