page_title: A Lady in Her Bath
hierarchical_section_title: A Lady in Her Bath
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Identifikation der Dargestellten ist umstritten Français&#160;: Le tableau représente à priori une scène familiale à laquelle participent la mère, assise dans sa baignoire en bois de châtaigner. Elle porte un diadème et une perle sur le front. Au second plan dont un rideau recule la perspective, une nourrice aux traits grossiers allaite un nourrisson emmailloté. A l'arrière-plan, au fond de la chambre, s'active une servante qui porte un grand pot d'eau chaude pour le bain. L'analyse allégorique de maints détails (présence ironique de la licorne&#160;; coupe de fruits, symbole de la gourmandise sensuelle avec la grappe de raisins, signe officiel du pouvoir temporel) suggère que la femme aux seins nus est Marie Stuart dont les écarts sentimentaux furent la risée de toute l'Europe. Le tableau est peut-être la commande d'un protestant voulant faire une satire politique de cette reine offrant sa nudité dépréciative et tenant à la main un œillet rouge (symbole de ses fiançailles multiples). Le tableau pourrait être une allégorie des trois vertus théologales&#160;: l'enfant serait l'espérance, la nourrice serait la foi nourricière et la femme nue la charité.
context_page_description: A Lady in Her Bath is a painting by François Clouet. It was painted in 1571. It measures 92.3 x 81.2 cm The picture is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. It is one of only three paintings signed by Clouet. The teenaged bather is unknown. It is possible that she is Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France when she was a teenager. Scholar Roger Trinquet suggested in 1966 that the teenaged lady is Mary Queen of Scots. The lady's face resembles other portraits of Mary, especially a drawing by Clouet depicting Mary in mourning. Trinquet believes the painting was intended as a satire for a Huguenot patron. The painting set a fashion for portraits of bathers.
  The National Gallery writes: "The masklike symmetry of the bather's face makes exact identification difficult; scholars have suggested that her aristocratic features indicate that she is one of several royal mistresses, most notable among them Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Henry II. It is possible that the nude, a Venus type, represents ideal beauty rather than a specific individual.
context_section_description: A Lady in Her Bath is a painting by François Clouet. It was painted in 1571. It measures 92.3 x 81.2 cm (36 5/16 x 31 15/16 in.) The picture is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. It is one of only three paintings signed by Clouet. The teenaged bather is unknown. It is possible that she is Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France when she was a teenager. Scholar Roger Trinquet suggested in 1966 that the teenaged lady is Mary Queen of Scots. The lady's face resembles other portraits of Mary, especially a drawing by Clouet depicting Mary in mourning. Trinquet believes the painting was intended as a satire for a Huguenot patron. The painting set a fashion for portraits of bathers.
  The National Gallery writes: "The masklike symmetry of the bather's face makes exact identification difficult; scholars have suggested that her aristocratic features indicate that she is one of several royal mistresses, most notable among them Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Henry II. It is possible that the nude, a Venus type, represents ideal beauty rather than a specific individual. The contrast of the smoothly rendered nude figure to the intricate surface details of the fruit, draperies, and jewelry, presents a union of Flemish and Italian motifs that characterized French courtly art of the sixteenth century."
caption: A Lady in Her Bath
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