Caption:
Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Marquise de Verneuil, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1579-1633. After a miniature oil painting. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Pierre de la Mesangere's "Costumes des femmes celebres" (Costumes of Famous Women), Paris, 1827.