Twee mannen met honden in het bos 1798 - 1837

This etching by Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, a Dutch artist who worked in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, is a portrait of Maria de' Medici, Queen of France. The image depicts her in an ornate oval frame with decorative elements and a Latin inscription identifying her as the wife of King Henry IV of France. This small-scale print, measuring 76 mm in height and 70 mm in width, would likely have been produced for a personal collection and demonstrates the skill of Bagelaar in the art of engraving, a technique that was popular throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.