Description
Circle of Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan 1659 - Paris 1743), Portrait of King Louis XIV early 18th century oil on canvas 127x96.6 cm, within coeval gilded wood frame carved with scrolls, racemes, leaves and roccailles The genre of portraiture, the highest expression of 18th-century taste and culture, is exalted in this monumental early 18th-century portrait of King Louis XIV, attributable to a talented French painter from the circle of Hyacinthe Rigaud. The French monarch is portrayed standing and with a proud bearing, sporting shining armor meticulously painted in every detail. A strong rhetoric of royal power shines through from the fashions, such as the detail of the blue ribbon that is a clear tribute to the Order of Saint-Esprit to which the monarch belongs.
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Circle of Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan 1659 - Paris 1743), Portrait of King Louis XIV early 18th century oil on canvas 127x96.6 cm, within coeval gilded wood frame carved with scrolls, racemes, leaves and roccailles The genre of portraiture, the highest expression of 18th-century taste and culture, is exalted in this monumental early 18th-century portrait of King Louis XIV, attributable to a talented French painter from the circle of Hyacinthe Rigaud. The French monarch is portrayed standing and with a proud bearing, sporting shining armor meticulously painted in every detail. A strong rhetoric of royal power shines through from the fashions, such as the detail of the blue ribbon that is a clear tribute to the Order of Saint-Esprit to which the monarch belongs.
