2-720-441 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Gaspard II de Coligny, c1565-1570, (1907). Portrait of French Huguenot admiral Gaspard de Coligny (1517-1572). Already wounded by a previous attempt on his life, Coligny was murdered in his room in the presence of the Catholic Duc de Guise in the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre on 23 August 1572. Afterwards, the massacre spread to ordinary Huguenots, initially in Paris, but later across much of the country, with Catholic mobs murdering tens of thousands of Protestants. After a painting made 1565-1570 by François Clouet, in the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA. From "Exposition de Portraits, peints et dessinés", (Exhibition of painted and drawn portraits), catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale, April-June 1907. [Librairie Centrale Des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1907]