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Louis XIV
Hyacinthe Rigaud18th century
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
A reduced copy of a three-quarter-length portrait by Giraud of which there is a version in the château de Chenonceau. Another half-length copy is at Versailles.
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- Title: Louis XIV
- Creator Lifespan: 1659 - 1743
- Date: 18th century
- Physical Dimensions: w721 x h914 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- Work Notes: Perhaps: Joseph Franz Anton Graf von Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach; his sale, London, Truchsessian Gallery, 14+ May 1804, lot 710 (‘Rigaud–Portrait of Lewis XIV'). On canvas, 2' 10" h x 2' 2" w (The materials and dimensions are given in the 1803 descriptive catalogue). ?Bt in; Joseph Franz Anton Graf von Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach; his sale, London, Skinner and Dyke, 29 Mar. 1806, lot 228 (‘Rigaud–Portrait of Louis the Fourteenth'). £17.16. Handwritten note in CIL copy of catalogue gives size as ‘3 h 2 1/2'.
- Work Nationality: French
- Support: Canvas on panel
- Provenance: London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811.
- After: Rigaud, Hyacinthe
- Acquisition Method: Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis (Bequest, 1811)
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