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| Keywords: Hyacinthe Rigaud 009.jpg Artwork Creator Hyacinthe Rigaud Portrait of Louis XV of France as a five-year-old King in the French coronation robes 1715-09 oil on canvas cm 195 6 141 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery 522 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 inscription Fait par Hyacinthe Rigaud en Septembre 1715 writing verso fr Made by Hyacinthe Rigaud in September 1715 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 accession number 60 6 http //metmuseum org/Collections/search-the-collections/110001915 Metropolitan Museum of Art Online Gallery PD-old-100 Louis XV at the Age of Five in Coronation Robes by Hyacinthe Rigaud 18th-century portrait paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
