The Triumph of Henry IV, Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1630
The Triumph of Henry IV, ca. 1630, Oil on wood, 19 1/2 x 32 7/8 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp), This energetic sketch shows Henry IV (1553–1610), King of France, entering Paris 'in the manner of the triumphs of the Romans,' as described in Rubens’s contract of 1622. Rubens was to paint forty-eight large canvases for the king’s widow, Marie de’ Medici, to decorate the Palais de Luxembourg
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