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Marble statue of Anne d''Autriche in Jardin du Luxembourg.

Joseph Marius Ramus's statue of Anne of Austria (1847) is one in a series of queens and saints in Jardin du Luxembourg. Anne (1601 - 1666) was married to Louis XIII. She was 37 by the time the heir to the throne, Louis XIV, was born.

 

Anne of Austria wears a laced dress with a cape. In her right hand she holds a scroll, in her left a sceptre.

Her hair is curly and open.