Woman in the Bath (Diane de Poitiers)?
Ca. 1566. Oil on panel. Room 060The high quality of this work makes it the finest replica of the original by François Clouet in the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The complex symbolism relates to the French court of Henry II, whose favourite, Diane de Poitiers, may be the woman depicted here. The boy, the baby and the fruit allude to fertility and the pink to love.