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Summary
This portrait of the later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_France" class="extiw" title="w:Henry III of France">Henry III of France</a> was long mistaken for a portrait of his younger brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis,_Duke_of_Anjou" class="extiw" title="en:Francis, Duke of Anjou">Francis of Alençon</a>, due to a false inscription at the bottom of the portrait. (Not shown here.) The preparatory sketch that formed the basis of this work, preserved in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France" class="extiw" title="en:Bibliothèque nationale de France">National Library of France</a>, shows clearly that this is Henry III.
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| current | 08:22, 3 January 2017 | | 357 × 482 (44 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <div class="description"> This portrait of the later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_France" class="extiw" title="w:Henry III of France">Henry III of France</a> was long mistaken for a portrait of his younger brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis,_Duke_of_Anjou" class="extiw" title="en:Francis, Duke of Anjou">Francis of Alençon</a>, due to a false inscription at the bottom of the portrait. (Not shown here.) The preparatory sketch that formed the basis of this work, preserved in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France" class="extiw" title="en:Bibliothèque nationale de France">National Library of France</a>, shows clearly that this is Henry III.</div> |
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- 1550–1600 in Western European fashion
- 1574 in art
- Catherine de' Medici
- Catherine de' Medici's patronage of the arts
- Counts and dukes of Anjou
- Duke of Orléans
- France–Poland relations
- Franco-Ottoman alliance
- Henry III of France
- History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648)
- List of Canadian monarchs
- List of French military leaders
- List of French monarchs
- List of Knights and Ladies of the Garter
- List of heads of state of France
- War of the Three Henrys
- Infogalactic:Selected anniversaries/July 7
