Gabrielle d'Estrées gant ur c'hoar dezhi : diforc'h etre ar stummoù
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Linenn 15:
N'ouzer ket gant piv e voe livet an daolenn, war-dro 1594.
▲ In the painting, Gabrielle sits up nude in a bath, holding (assumedly) Henry's coronation ring, whilst her sister sits nude beside her and pinches her right nipple. Henry gave Gabrielle the ring as a token of his love shortly before she died.
The painting is a symbolic announcement anticipating the birth of Gabrielle's first child with Henry IV, [[César de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme|César de Bourbon]]. <ref>[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 soeur la duchesse de Villars]</ref> Her maternity is expressed in three ways: her sister pinches the source of the new mother's milk, the servant in the background knits in preparation for the child, and the fire in the fireplace signifies the mother's furnace. The love between Gabrielle and Henry IV is expressed by the painting of a love scene on the back wall and by the coronation ring.
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