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Miniature of Catherine de' Medici,  "a rare portrait of Catherine before she was widowed in 1559, when she adopted the veil and severely plain dress of a widow."</div>
<bdi>Attributed to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Fran%C3%A7ois_Clouet" class="extiw" title="w:en:François Clouet"><span title="French Renaissance miniaturist and painter (c.1510-1572)">François Clouet</span></a>
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circa 1555 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1555-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
1. (Hearn, Karen, ed. Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630. New York: Rizzoli, 1995. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8478-1940-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-8478-1940-X">ISBN 0-8478-1940-X</a>.)<br>2. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O74841/catherine-de-medici-portrait-miniature-clouet-francois">Victoria and Albert Museum</a>