Grand Ladies

Beautiful as a girl and less so as she matured, she was born 1575, married Henri IV who had his marriage with Marguerite de Valois annulled, quarreled with his mistress Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues whom Henri had jilted when he married Maria, and was widowed when Henri IV was assassinated in 1610. She was not sufficiently firm with the nobility and fell into disputes with her son Louis XIII. She spent much of the rest of her life plotting against Cardinal Richelieu. Her Wikipedia article is here.

Adolescent Marie de Medici by Scipio Pulzone (location ?)

1593-1595 Maria de Medici by Pietro Facchetti (location unknown to gogm)

1575-1600 Bodice worn by Marie de Medici in Paris (Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, Massachusette USA)

1594 Maria de'Medici, later Queen of France, portrait of a portrait by Scipione Pulzone (Robert Simon Fine Art)

Maria de Medici, Reina de Francia 12 by ? (location ?)

1600 Marie de Medici wedding by Peter Paul Rubens - painted 1622-1625 (Musée du Louvre - Paris France)

1600 Wedding of Maria de Medici and Henry IV of France by Jacopo Chimenti (Galleria degli Uffizi - Firenze, Toscana, Italy)

ca. 1600 Maria de Medici by follower of Scipione Pulzone (auctioned by Balclis)

1603 Maria de' Medici and her son Louis XIII by Charles Martin (Musée des Beaux-arts, Blois - Blois, Centre region, France)

1605 Maria de Medici attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger (Dorotheum)

1605 deflawed Maria de Medici attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger (Dorotheum)

1605 Marie de' Medici, reine de France by ? (location ?)

Miniature portrait of Marie de' Medici by ? (location unknown to gogm)

Possibly Maria de Medici, future Queen Consort of France by Frans Pourbus the Younger (auctioned by Sotheby's)

1609-1610 Maria de Medici by Frans Pourbus the Younger (Rijksmueum)

1609-1610 Figurine of Marie de Medici by George Stuart

Marie de Medici wearing crown with Sancy diamond by George Stuart

Widowed Marie de Medici by ? (location unknown to gogm)

1622 Maria de Medici by Frans Pourbus the Younger (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao - Bilbao, Bizkaia-Vizcaya, Spain)

Marie de Medici by Frans Pourbus the Younger (Christie's)

Maria de Medici by Frans Pourbus or Scipione Pulzone (Galleria Palatina, Firenze Italy)

Maria de Medici as a young girl by school of Santi di Tito (location unknown to gogm)

1772 print Marie de Medici from Thomas Jefferys, A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations