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Image: Wedding ball of the Duc de Joyeuse, 1581

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Description: The painting depicts the wedding ball of the Duke of Joyeuse and Marguerite of Lorraine, in Paris on 24 September 1581. Joyeuse was the favourite of King Henry III of France, and Marguerite was the sister of Henry's wife, Queen Louise of Lorraine. According to the description of this picture in the 1988 catalogue of the Armada Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, the newlyweds are depicted in the centre; to the left sits Henry III beside Catherine de' Medici and his wife, Queen Louise; behind them stand the dukes of Guise, Mayenne, and d' Epernon (Armada, London: Penguin, 1988, ISBN 0140103015).
Title: Wedding ball of the Duke of Joyeuse, 1581.
Credit: http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000057470.html
Author: Attributed to Hieronymus Francken (I)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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