A portrait print, in imitation of a chalk drawing, of Eleonor of Castile, Queen of Portugal and later Queen of France. Bust length with hood, jewelled earrings, and gown. With French inscription.

The prints in this series originate from P.G. J. Niel's two-volume Portraits des personnages français les plus illustres du XVIe siècle of 1848. In these volumes Neil published facsimile reproductions of sixteenth-century drawings of French Kings, Queen Consorts and Nobles, which were then housed in the Bibliothèques Royal and Sainte-Geneviève. The portraits were accompanied by text providing historical and genealogical information about the sitters. Niel's work follows the format of the volume of engravings of the court of Henry VIII after the drawings by Hans Holbein the Younger in the Royal Collection, which was published in 1800 (see RCIN 809364.a). 

The author of the text accompanying this plate considered the drawing from which this print was made one from the school of François Clouet.