Portrait of Catherine de' Medici  1580

[i]Copy after [url=https://useum.org/artist/Francois-Clouet]François Clouet[/url][/i] [br]Catherine de' Medici (1519-89) was the daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici, the duke of Urbino, and his French wife. Catherine married the duke of Orleans, later King Henry II of France (1519-59). Here, she is depicted with a widow's cap, which she continued to wear long after her husband'...