# Portrait of Henry IV of France [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TITO, Santi di]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 67 x 53 cm ## Commentary Santi di Tito consigned this canvas in July 1600, to Francesco Ferrucci, the creator of polychrome stone inlays for the grand ducal workshop in Florence. It served as a model for making a portrait in the semiprecious stone technique known as "commesso in pietre dure." Ferrucci, who had already produced a similar portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici two years earlier, completed the task of portraying Henry IV in three months' time. The inlaid portrait of the French king has since been lost. ## Related artworks - [Building of the Temple of Solomon]() - [Portrait of a Girl]() - [Portrait of Maria de' Medici]() - [Portrait of the Young Maria de' Medici]() - [Vision of St Thomas Aquinas]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()