The Triumph of Henry IV, ca. 1630, Oil on wood, 19 1/2 x 32 7/8 in. (49. 5 x 83. 5 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