A party under henry ii by arnold scheffer, 1865. Exhibited on the staircase of the hôtel de rolland (carcassonne town hall). According to henri estienne: "this example is of an act that was taken in blois at the entry of king henry the second of that name, to have a number of women stripped of their clothes and being completely naked, put them on oxen and on them in such a crew to make their monsters wherever seemed good to the gentlemen who followed them acting as picqueboeufs. " purchased by the state at the salon of 1865. Object Type: painting. Date: 1865. Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne. Arnold Scheffer - Une fête sous Henri II 01
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