Editing Gabrielle d'Estrées (section)

==Representation in art==
Gabrielle is the subject of the painting ''[[Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs]]'' by Francois Clouet, which is held in the [[Louvre|Louvre Museum]] in Paris.<ref name=":0" /> In the painting, Gabrielle sits unclothed in a bathtub which is covered in cloth, holding what is presumed to be Henry's coronation ring given to her before their wedding and her death, whilst her sister [[Julienne-Hippolyte-Joséphine, Duchess of Villars]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Hannah |date=10 July 2019 |title=The Meaning behind One of the Most Oddly Erotic Paintings in Western Art |url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-meaning-one-oddly-erotic-paintings-western-art |access-date=5 March 2022 |website=Artsy |language=en}}</ref> also sits unclothed beside her and pinches Gabrielle’s right [[nipple]]. Henry gave Gabrielle the ring as a token of his love shortly before she died.<ref name=":0">[http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=1105 Official site of the Louvre Museum - Portrait présumé de Gabrielle d'Estrées et de sa sœur la duchesse de Villars]</ref> 

A very similar painting with the same characters in different positions is in the [[Palace of Fontainebleau]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Les Dames au Bain|url=https://www.chateaudefontainebleau.fr/collection-et-ressources/les-collections/peintures/les-dames-au-bain/|access-date=9 October 2020|website=Château de Fontainebleau|language=fr-FR}}</ref> and yet a third one without her sister in the [[Musée Condé]] in the [[Château de Chantilly]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Les incontournables|url=https://domainedechantilly.com/fr/accueil/chateau/les-galeries-de-peintures/les-incontournables-peintures/|access-date=9 October 2020|website=Domaine de Chantilly|language=fr|archive-date=14 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014002944/https://domainedechantilly.com/fr/accueil/chateau/les-galeries-de-peintures/les-incontournables-peintures/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[J. M. W. Turner]] painted a watercolour of "Fair Gabrielle" at [[Bougival]].{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}<gallery widths="225" heights="150" mode="packed">
File:Gabrielle d’Estrées and her sister, the Duchess of Villars - Palace of FontainebleauDames-au-bain-château-de-Fontainebleau.jpg|''Gabrielle d’Estrées and [[Julienne-Hippolyte-Joséphine, Duchess of Villars]]'': [[Palace of Fontainebleau]]
File:Scuola di fontainebleau, presunti ritratti di gabrielle d'estrées sua sorella la duchessa di villars, 1594 ca. 06.jpg|[[Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs|''Gabrielle d'Estrées and her sister'']] ([[Louvre]]). Gabrielle d’Estrées and the Duchess of Villars "… turn half towards the viewer as they sit in a bathtub lined with silk. The women have faces the shape of upturned petals; thin, arched eyebrows; skin the same color as the pearls they both wear in their ears. They are naked from the waist up, and both women’s small, dark eyes are locked on the viewer, mouths tight and ambiguous. But what everybody sees first—what viewers can’t help but fix their gazes on—is the hand of the woman on the left as it pinches the nipple of the woman on the right, her index finger and thumb forming a perfect "C." Above them, ruched silk curtains, heavy as thunderclouds, are parted as though the audience is at a stage’s edge. The viewer’s voyeuristic position sets the scene as a performance." -[https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-meaning-one-oddly-erotic-paintings-western-art Artsy.net] on the portrait.
File:Ecole française - Gabrielle d'Estrées au bain - Google Art Project.jpg|''Gabrielle d'Estrées au bain'': [[Musée Condé]] (Château de Chantilly)
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