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Summary

Hyacinthe Rigaud: Louis XV at the Age of Five in the Costume of the Sacre

Artist



Alternative names	Hyacinthe François Honoré Mathias Pierre André Jean Rigaud Hyacinthe Rigaud y Ros Hyacinthe Rigault
Description	French- painter, professor, drawer 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 file	: Q49898 VIAF: 71428427 ISNI: 0000000121387361 ULAN: 500024827 LCCN: no91019377 MusicBrainz: b8e97d59-acf2-4f18-8cfb-0be32a1b2135 WorldCat

Title

French:

Louis XV de France, enfant

Louis XV of France as a child

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

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

Depicted people

Louis XV of France

Date

circa 1716-1724 September 1715

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 195.6 cm (77 in); width: 141 cm (55.5 in)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	Manhattan, New York City, United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 46″ N, 73° 57′ 48″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q160236 VIAF: 126238294 ISNI: 0000000419368761 ULAN: 500125157 LCCN: n79129629 NLA: 36247933 WorldCat

Current location

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

Source/Photographer

Metropolitan Museum of Art Online Gallery

Other versions

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	14:11, 13 September 2017	2,797 × 3,872 (2.46 MB)	Hohum	rv, original is better
	11:18, 15 July 2017	2,751 × 3,541 (2.81 MB)	Soerfm	Crop
	10:21, 15 July 2017	2,797 × 3,872 (2.96 MB)	Soerfm	Color
	14:39, 1 March 2012	2,797 × 3,872 (2.46 MB)	Alexcoldcasefan