Marie Stuart
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Full length portrait with a scene of her execution in the background at left and a church facade in the background at right. From a series of twenty images designed by Vignon to illustrate "La Galerie des Femmes fortes," a poem by the Jesuit father Pierre le Moyne published in 1647. The poem, which celebrates ancient, modern, and Old Testament heroines, was dedicated to Anne of Austria, regent of France.
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