Postcard From Paris #3

Fontainebleau school
(late 16th century)

Presumed Portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrées and Her Sister, the Duchess of Villars
c. 1594
H. 0.96 m; W. 1.25 m

The ostentatious gesture may be an allusion to Gabrielle's pregnancy and the birth in 1594 of César de Vendôme, the illegitimate son of Henry IV.