<p><i>Water Festival at Bayonne</i>. Black chalk, pen and ink wash. <span style="white-space:nowrap"> 35 × 49 cm</span>. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
</p><p><i>La Fête de l'eau à Bayonne, le 24 juin 1565</i>. Pierre noire, plume et encre brune. <span style="white-space:nowrap"> 35 × 49 cm</span>. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
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This is a design for a tapestry illustrating the festivities at the summit meeting between the French and Spanish courts at Bayonne in 1565. The tapestry itself, finished no later than 1580–81, includes full-length figures in the foreground, possibly designed by a different hand.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Antoine_Caron" class="extiw" title="w:en:Antoine Caron"><span title="French painter (1521-1599)">Antoine Caron</span></a>
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circa 1565 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1565-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>–c 1580. A clue to a more precise dating is that this series depicts no event later than 1573 (Roy Strong, <i>Art and Power</i>, Boydell Press, 1984, p. 101).
<p>André Chastel. <i>French Art: The Renaissance, 1430–1620.</i> Translated by Deke Dusinberre. Paris: Flammarion, 1995, p. 171. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/208013583X" title="Special:BookSources/208013583X">ISBN 208013583X</a>. 
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<i>Le Dessin français. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Pierpont Morgan Library</i>, Pierpont Morgan Library/Réunion des Musées nationaux, New York-Paris, 1993.