Anne de Clèves
Anne de Clèves (1515 - 1557): girl of Jean III, duke of Clèves.
Born the September 22nd 1515 with Düsseldorf, girl of Jean III, duke of Clèves, one of the chiefs of the German Protestantism , becomes the January 6th 1540 the fourth wife of Henri VIII of England, thanks to the mediation of Thomas Cromwell which seeks the alliance of the German Protestant princes. Henri VIII, having broken his alliance with the German Protestants, repudiates it later six months in July 1540 by granting to him an important annual rent, and remarie with Catherine Howard. She continues to live peacefully in England and dies the July 16th 1557 with Chelsea.
Holbein, the painter who did it queen
After the disappearance of Jeanne Seymour, third woman of Henri VIII of England, died by giving the day to the dolphin Edouard, Holbein accompanied on the continent the ambassadors who had mission of finding a new wife for the king. Thus it made successively, them to send to London, the portraits of Christine of Denmark, of Louise de Guise, Anne of Lorraine and Renee de Guise.
It returned to London by Paris, but, in 1539, it was necessary for him to set out again for the Germany with the castle of Düren, in order to paint there the girl of the duke of Clèves, the Anne princess, because Henri VIII favorably considered an alliance with a German Protestant house. The painter had with his realism without flattery not to incur the disgrace of the king, who was allured by the portrait, but if disappointed by the alive model that he repudiated it at the end of six months.
A miniature with the watercolour of South Kensington Museum of London represents Anne de Clèves in the same red dress and gold.
The art of Holbein is here with its apogee: refined in detail goldsmith of the sumptuous red dress and the hairstyle furnished with jewels, but so subtly psychological in exactitude of the empty and vague glance, the soft and inexpressive features, in the precision of the gesture of the hands crossed without elegance. The painter distracted himself by building beautiful architecture from clothing, making thus unimportant, more falote still, the princess with the face stripped of charm.
Simple: Anne off Cleves
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