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Marriage of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, The Dowry by Antoine Caron — VisualArtsDB

Marriage of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, The Dowry

Marriage of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, The Dowry

1557–1567

Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead-white gouache, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 41 × 54.3 cm (16 3/16 × 21 7/16 in.)
Genre: pen and ink drawings
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)inkMythologypen and ink drawingsprints and drawingsmarriages/weddingswashopaque white pigmentwhite pigmentbrown washprints and drawingpeoplecolored inkbrown inkChristian subjectscolorantKingslead whitequeenscoating (material)pigmentpaper (fiber product)

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