File:Hyacinthe Rigaud 009.jpg

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Summary

Artist



Alternative names	Hyacinthe François Honouré Mathias Pierre André Jean Rigaud Hyacinthe Rigaud y Ros Hyacinthe Rigault
Description	French painter, professor, draughtsman and pastellist
Date of birth/death	18 July 1659	29 December 1743
Location of birth/death	Perpignan	Paris
Work location	Perpignan (1669-1670), Lyon (1677-1681), Paris (1681-1743), Rome (1682), Perpignan (1695)
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

French: Louis XV de France, enfant
Louis XV of France as a child

Description

Portrait of Louis XV of France as a five-year-old King in the French coronation robes.

Date

1715-09

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

195.6 × 141 cm (77 × 55.5 in)

Current location

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	New York City, United States
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 46.01″ N, 73° 57′ 47.20″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority control	WorldCat

Gallery 522

Accession number

60.6

Object history

Rigaud was a favorite at the French court owing to the success of his portraits of Louis XIV. The painter's early work was influenced by Van Dyck, while his later style is more ornate and decorative. This canvas is one of nine versions of a portrait commissioned by the duc d'Orléans for the palace at Versailles.

Exhibition history

February-April 1956: Orangerie des Tuileries.

Credit line

Mary Wetmore Shively Bequest, in memory of her husband, Henry L. Shively, M.D., 1960

Inscriptions

Writing verso: Fait par Hyacinthe Rigaud en Septembre 1715 [Made by Hyacinthe Rigaud in September 1715]

Notes

Ref. Constans 1995 lists a total of nine versions "de provenance royale" of the Versailles original (189 x 135 cm), including ours. The others she lists are in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Reims and Rouen, in the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the châteaux de Compiègne, the Musée Condé, Chantilly, Hampton Court, and in Frohsdorff, near Vienna.

The composition was engraved by Pierre-Imbert Drevet and by Nicolas IV Larmessin.

References

Metropolitan Museum of Art Online Gallery

Source/Photographer

Joconde database: entry 000PE007238

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