| The Courtship of Anne Boleyn | |
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| Artist | Emanuel Leutze |
| Year | 1846 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, history painting |
| Dimensions | 72.4 cm× 101.8 cm(28.5 in× 40.1 in) |
| Location | Smithsonian, Washington D.C. |
The Courtship of Anne Boleyn is an 1846 history painting by the German artist Emanuel Leutze. It depicts a scene from Tudor England during the reign of Henry VIII. The king is shown publicly courting Anne Boleyn, a lady-in-waiting to his first queen Catherine of Aragon
The work is also known as The Great Matter, a reference to the euphemism for the King's attempts to secure a divorce from his first wife. Today the painting is in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC [1]
