# Monument to Valentine Balbiani \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PILON, Germain]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Almost 20 years after the <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/pilon/henri2\_2.html'\)" HREF="/html/p/pilon/henri2\_2.html">monument to Henri and Catherine de' Medici,</A> Pilon was to repeat the cadaver theme in a relief on the monument to Valentine Balbiani, wife of the Chancellor René de Birague. The treatment here is closely related to that of the royal figures, though possibly more acidly dynamic. ## Related artworks - [Cardinal René de Birague \(1506–83\)]() - [Caryatids]() - [Charles IX of France]() - [Diana with a Stag]() - [Diana with a Stag]() - [Effigies of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici \(detail\)]() - [Effigies of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici \(detail\)]() - [Effigies of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici]() - [Effigies of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici]() - [Effigies of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici]() - [Monument for the Heart of Henri II]() - [Monument for the Heart of Henri II]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()