File:MaryQueenofScotsMourning.jpg

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Summary

Artist



Alternative names	Janet
Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	circa 1515	22 September 1572
Location of birth/death	Tours	Paris
Work period	circa 1536-1572
Work location	Paris
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587)

Mary, Queen of Scots

Description

Mary, Queen of Scots in “white mourning”

Date

circa 1559–1560; the picture was painted before August 1560 (so before the death of her husband but after the deaths of her father-in-law and mother) as it is mentioned in a letter of that date from the English ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton to Elizabeth I of England ( Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots, 1994 new edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 0-297-17773-7, p. 77; Roy Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, National Portrait Gallery, p. 219)

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

30.3 × 23.2 cm (11.9 × 9.1 in)

Current location

Royal Collection

	Native name	Royal Collection of the United Kingdom
	Location	United Kingdom
	Established	after 1491
	Website	www.royalcollection.org.uk

Accession number

RCIN 403429

Notes

Extensive description is available at the Royal Collection.

Source/Photographer

The Royal Collection Website Webpage Picture

Licensing

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