# Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France

- Date: c. 1777 - c. 1789
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 81 cm x width 64.5 cm
- Credit line: Gift of B. de Geus van den Heuvel, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-3278--b6205dcfc86c9c2a359c851e5701361a)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/0a2d1890f6fdd4d7046529bc0191feef.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.