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Santi di Tito consigned this canvas in July 1600, to Francesco Ferrucci, the creator of polychrome stone inlays for the grand ducal workshop in Florence. It served as a model for making a portrait in the semiprecious stone technique known as "commesso in pietre dure." Ferrucci, who had already produced a similar portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici two years earlier, completed the task of portraying Henry IV in three months' time.
The inlaid portrait of the French king has since been lost.
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