Plate 5a: Marie de Medici as Berecynthia, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes"

Marie de Medici, Queen of France, and King Henry IV on a chariot drawn by four lions. At right, the female personification of Amsterdam stands on the stern of a ship.

One of a series of sixteen plates showing the festivals and ceremonies in honor of Marie de Medici's visit to Amsterdam from August 31 to September 5, 1638.

Illustration to Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes", Amsterdam, 1638.

Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951