Portraits of Eleanor of Mantua and Anna of Austria, both as shepherdesses, Mantuana , Galligana (title on object), Les vrais pourtraits de quelques unes des plus grandes dames de la chrestiente desguisees en bergeres. (series title), Two representations on an album leaf. On the left, the portrait of Eleanor of Mantua, wife of Emperor Ferdinand II, as Mantuana On the right, Anna of Austria, Queen of France, as Galligana Both women have a shepherd's staff in their hands. That of the empress is decorated with a double-headed eagle, a reference to the Holy Roman Empire.

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