Keywords: Valois Tapestry 2.jpg Tapestry depicting a ball held by Catherine de' Medici at the Tuileries Palace Paris in 1573 in honour of Polish envoys visiting to present the throne of Poland to her son Henry Duke of Anjou the future Henry III of France The tapestry is one of a series known as the Valois Tapestries celebrating the court festivals or magnificences of Catherine de' Medici Leonie Frieda Catherine de Medici London Phoenix 2005 ISBN 0173820390 The costumes in the tapestry date to no later than about 1580 Designed at least in part by Antoine Caron some of whose preliminary drawings have survived PD-Art ImageNote 1 268 853 947 266 1278 1140 2 Les ambassadeurs polonais ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 493 394 169 272 1278 1140 2 La reine Catherine de Médicis ImageNoteEnd 2 ImageNote 3 209 57 765 305 1278 1140 2 Le jardin des Tuileries ImageNoteEnd 3 ImageNote 4 78 305 175 223 1278 1140 2 Peut-être le duc Anne de Joyeuse ImageNoteEnd 4 ImageNote 5 753 544 276 354 1278 1140 2 Peut-être la reine Louise de Lorraine et le roi Henri III ImageNoteEnd 5 ImageNote 6 588 514 184 438 1278 1140 2 Peut-être le roi Charles IX et la reine Elisabeth d'Autriche ImageNoteEnd 6 ImageNote 7 312 525 268 312 1278 1140 2 Peut-être le roi et la reine de Navarre ImageNoteEnd 7 Valois tapestries Jardin des Tuileries in art 1573 Caterina de' Medici 1573 Henry III of Poland and France 1573 Charles IX of France 1573 Elisabeth of Austria 1554-1592 1573 Diplomacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1573 Paris in the 16th century 1573 in France 1573 in Paris 1570s fashion |