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Inscription: Inscribed (reverse, on wood): Henry 3me / Roy de / France [?85]; by Clouet

Mary Clark Thompson, New York and Canandaigua, New York (until d. 1923)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 5, 1996–January 5, 1997, no. 2.

Graham Reynolds with the assistance of Katharine Baetjer. European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1996, pp. 12, 68, no. 2, ill.

The identification of the sitter as Henry III is confirmed by comparison with a Clouet school drawing in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Fonds Ste.-Geneviève, no. 118), published in Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, "Les Clouets et leurs émules," Paris, 1924, vol. 2, fig. 283; vol. 3, p. 77, no. 362 [see Ref. Reynolds and Baetjer 1996].

The sitter wears the blue ribbon of the Order of the Saint-Esprit, which he established in 1578.