King Henry IV meets a gamekeeper in the woods

The scene portrayed in King Henry IV meets a gamekeeper in the woods takes place at night and features the sovereign, removed from his quarters to better reflect on the political choices he should have made for the good of France, at the time devastated by religious wars and power conflicts.

The fulcrum of the work is the meeting between the sovereign, now lost in the dense vegetation of the forest, and the gamekeeper miller equipped with pistols.

In the work, in fact, it is possible to see the king in the act of concealing the royal order, covering it with one hand, while the gamekeeper tugs at him, pointing a lamp in his face.

The episode, which ends with the arrest of the king, forcibly taken to the gamekeeper's house, is narrated in Voltaire's Henriad.

The choice to re-propose stories from the life of Henry IV in this series can be interpreted as a gesture of inspiration by Ferdinand IV, who at the time was certainly worried about the fate of the Kingdom following the French Revolution.