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Story of Queen Artemis: The Chariot of the Golden Throne. Pen, brown and black ink, wash, white highlights over chalk. 40 × 55 cm. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

This is one of a series of tapestry designs on the theme of Artemisia, the legendary queen whose iconography was adopted by Catherine de' Medici, both queens being regents on behalf of their children and immortalising their dead husbands in grandiose architectural projects.
Date 1560s
date QS:P,+1560-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
, based on a poem written by Nicolas Houel in 1562.
Source André Chastel. French Art: The Renaissance, 1430–1620. Translated by Deke Dusinberre. Paris: Flammarion, 1995. ISBN 208013583X. Page 256.
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Antoine Caron  (1521–1599)  wikidata:Q585829
 
Antoine Caron
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Antoine Charon
Description French painter, glass artist and illustrator
Date of birth/death 1521 Edit this at Wikidata 1599 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Beauvais Fontainebleau
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Fontainebleau, Paris
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creator QS:P170,Q585829

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