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File:Portrait of King Henry II of France (by Studio of François Clouet) - Royal Collection.jpg

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anonymous: Henry II, King of France (1519-1559)  wikidata:Q28033897 reasonator:Q28033897
Artist
Workshop of François Clouet  (1510–1572)  wikidata:Q336747
 
Workshop of François Clouet
Alternative names
Janet
Description French portrait painter
son of Jean Clouet
Date of birth/death circa 1515
date QS:P,+1515-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
22 September 1572 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Tours Paris
Work period circa 1536
date QS:P,+1536-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-1572
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1774,Q336747
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Henry II, King of France (1519-1559) Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Henry II, King of France (1519-1559) Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Henry II, King of France (1519-1559) Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Henry II of France Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1559 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on panel Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 39.6 cm (15.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 28.7 cm (11.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+39.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+28.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Current location
institution QS:P195,Q505950
Accession number
RCIN 403430 (Royal Collection) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Kingdom of France Edit this at Wikidata
Notes
English: François Clouet was trained by his father and succeeded as peintre et valet de chamber to Francis I in 1540/41. He served Henry II after the death of Francis I in 1547, but he found more patronage from Catherine de Médicis, who collected his portrait drawings.
Henry II (1519-59) was the second son of Francis I and became heir to the throne when his elder brother died in 1537. He succeeded his father as King of France in 1547. He married Catherine de Médicis in 1533 when both were 14 years old. During his reign he pursued war with Charles V with the intent of recapturing Italy, but was ultimately defeated in Tuscany in 1553 at the battle of Marciano. He raised Mary, Queen of Scots at his court in the hope of securing a claim on Scotland and ultimately England. His son Francis was married to Mary in 1558. In 1559 the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis was signed between France, Spain and England, but at the tournament to celebrate the treaty Henry was famously wounded in his eye by a lance and died. Henry continued his father’s patronage of art, architecture and literature, his reign being remembered particularly for ephemeral feats of display, such as his entrance into Rouen in 1550, which combined the skills of painters, sculptors and poets. His wife Catherine de Médicis was not only an important patron of the arts, but must have carefully managed the dissemination of the images of the late King after his death.
This is a high-quality head and shoulders of Henry II produced by Clouet’s studio, probably in the year of the King’s death. The King wears the insignia of the Order of St Michel, the French rival to the Order of the Garter and the Order of the Golden Fleece. There are many versions of this portrait, all dated 1559: the best known apart from the present work are in the collections at Versailles (perhaps the highest quality), the Louvre and the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. The preparatory drawing by Clouet has been dated c.1547 (Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris) and must have served as a prototype for the full-length portrait in the Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, and for the studio copies which replicate the head and shoulders in the Pitti portrait. Following restoration of the full-length Pitti portrait, it is now considered to be one of the most important official court portraits produced in France in the sixteenth century and is thought to be by Clouet himself. It was possibly painted when Henry became King in 1547. The King has the aristocratic elegance typical of court portraiture across Europe. Its formality is as close to northern portraiture by Anthonis Mor and Jakob Seisnegger as to the refined portraits by Italian artists such as Agnolo Bronzino and Francesco Salviati.
Three other Clouet drawings (British Museum, London, Hermitage, St Petersburg and Cabinet des Estampes, Bibilothèque nationale de France, Paris) are based on the Paris drawing and show the King beginning to advance in age, with a greying beard. The studio versions of his likeness, as here, show his beard beginning to go grey, but preserve the essential characteristics of the Paris drawing and the magnificent portrait in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. (Extracted from The Royal Collection).
References Royal Collection (UK) ID: 403430 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer Royal Collection RCIN 403430
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