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Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France
Also titled Portret van Lodewijk XVI, koning van Frankrijk
c. 1777 - c. 1789
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 81 cm x width 64.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of B. de Geus van den Heuvel, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Duplessis painted the first version of this portrait in 1777. Although the king wears his principal chivalric orders, he is portrayed in relatively simple attire and assumes an informal pose. This portrait found great favour, and Duplessis was repeatedly commissioned to copy it. This likeness was thus widely disseminated and hung in government buildings and palaces, among other places.
