Soft-ground etching printed in colour with a single tone-plate of Henri III, King of France. Bust length with short hair, beard, plumed hat, and doublet. With French inscription.

The prints in this series originate from P.G. J. Niel's two-volume Portraits des personnages français les plus illustres du XVIe siècle of 1848. In these volumes Neil published facsimile reproductions of sixteenth-century drawings of French Kings, Queen Consorts and Nobles, which were then housed in the Bibliothèques Royal and Sainte-Geneviève. The portraits were accompanied by text providing historical and genealogical information about the sitters. Niel's work follows the format of the volume of engravings of the court of Henry VIII after the drawings by Hans Holbein the Younger in the Royal Collection, which was published in 1800 (see RCIN 809364.a). 

This print is after a portrait drawing by François Clouet now in the Bibliothèques Nationale de France.