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  • Portrait of King Henry IV of France, 16thC.
  • The assassination of Henry IV, King of France, 1610: a tumultuous scene on the streets of Paris, in which the King's coach is stuck in traffic and the assassin fatally wounds the King in his coach. Etching by J. and C. Luyken.
  • The assassination of Henry IV, King of France, 1610: a tumultuous scene on the streets of Paris, in which the King's coach is stuck in traffic and the assassin fatally wounds the King in his coach. Etching by J. and C. Luyken.
  • The birth of Henri of Navarre (Henry IV King of France). Line engraving by J.B. Pfitzer after L. Lafitte.
  • Henri IV of France touching the head of a kneeling man for the king's evil (scrofula). Line engraving.
  • The church of San Lorenzo, Florence, with funerary decorations to mark the death of King Henri IV of France. Etching, 1610.
  • The birth of Henri IV at the castle of Pau. Oil painting after Eugène-François-Marie-Joseph Devéria.
  • The birth of Henri IV at the castle of Pau. Oil painting after Eugène-François-Marie-Joseph Devéria.
  • The birth of Henri IV at the castle of Pau. Oil painting after Eugène-François-Marie-Joseph Devéria.
  • The birth of Henri IV at the castle of Pau. Oil painting after Eugène-François-Marie-Joseph Devéria.
  • The birth of Henri IV at the castle of Pau. Oil painting after Eugène-François-Marie-Joseph Devéria.
  • The birth of Henri IV at the castle of Pau. Oil painting after Eugène-François-Marie-Joseph Devéria.
  • A man is playing a fiddle as a group of men and women dance around the equestrian statue of Henri IV on the Pont Neuf in Paris. Aquatint with etching, 1822.
  • Henri of Navarre, King of France shown in four imaginary poses. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Henri of Navarre, King of France shown in four imaginary poses. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Caesar Nostradamus reveals to Marie de' Medici a vision of King Henri IV as her future husband. Etching by N. Ransonnette, 1782.
  • The exhumed corpse of the French King Henry IV standing bandaged and upright in a coffin in the vaults of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Line engraving with etching by E. Bovinet, A. Chataigner and T.B. de Jolimont after E.H. Langlois.
  • Henri Duc de Guise has his hand trapped in a split tree trunk when the two parts of the tree are brought together, contrary to Nature; the tree representing the family tree of the kings of France, which diverges into a Valois branch and a Bourbon (Navarre) branch. Etching.
  • Les six couches de Marie de Médicis, reine de France et de Navarre / racontées par Louise Bourgeois, dite Boursier ; étude biographie, notes & éclaircissements par le docteur Achille Chereau.
  • The birth of King Louis XIII. Engraving by B. Audran the elder after J.M. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.
  • King Henri IV and Queen Marie de' Medici are submerged in the Seine in an accident when crossing the river in carriages. Etching.
  • Marie de Medici dressed in warlike form as Minerva, goddess of arts. Engraving by J.B. Massé, 1708, after J.M. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.