About This Artwork
Antoine Caron
French, c. 1515-1593
Marriage of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, The Dowryc. 1562
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead-white gouache, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
410 x 543 mm
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.98
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago," Gifts of a Lifetime ,Old Master Drawings," December 11, 1998–March 28, 1999, checklist 5.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 44-45, cat. 19 (ill.).
Publication History
Jean Ehrmann, Antoine Caron: Peintre des fêtes et des massacres (Flammarion, 1986), p. 103.
Ownership History
Private collection; sold, Christie’s, London, March 30, 1971, lot 31 to Colnaghi, London, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.