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GABRIELLE D’ESTREES 247
round. At the Musee Conde (Cabinet des Gemmes)
there is a miniature representing Gabrielle dEstrees
and her two Children, which bears unmistakable
likeness to this portrait. The late M. Gruyer
in his Catalogue Raisonnee of the Musee Condd
justly points out that this composition testifies to the
decadent turn taken by the late sixteenth-century
French School ; and we sadly miss the good
taste and the refinement which are such marked
qualities in the portraiture of Francois Clouet.
round. At the Musee Conde (Cabinet des Gemmes)
there is a miniature representing Gabrielle dEstrees
and her two Children, which bears unmistakable
likeness to this portrait. The late M. Gruyer
in his Catalogue Raisonnee of the Musee Condd
justly points out that this composition testifies to the
decadent turn taken by the late sixteenth-century
French School ; and we sadly miss the good
taste and the refinement which are such marked
qualities in the portraiture of Francois Clouet.