La Reine Margot (Marguerite de Valois) and Other Members of the Valois Court.

The Queen of Navarre and others at the Court of Catherine de Medici provide models for the sophisticated ladies and gentlemen in Love's Labor's Lost. The extraordinary dynamism of 16th c. Frenchwomen is reflected throughout Shakespeare's comedies and histories, including the Countess and Helena in All's Well, not to mention Rosalind in As You Like It. Tapestry location: Uffizi Museum, Florence. See Richmond, Hugh M., Puritans and Libertines: Anglo-French Literary Relations in the Reformation, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1981. Picture and some data courtesy of the Yorck Project, under Creative Commons Attribution-Share- Alike License (Wikipedia).