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Painting information
Artist Formerly attributed to Nicolas de Largillière, now unknown
Title
Deutsch: Porträt des Ludwig XIV. und seiner Erben
Year
Deutsch: um 1710-1715
English: c. 1710-1715
Technique
Deutsch: Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions
Deutsch: 127 × 160 cm
Current location
Deutsch: Wallace Collection
Deutsch: London
Source The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
Permission

Note - a composite portrait of the Bourbon succession since Henri IV (with Louis XIII he is seen as a bust) with copies of portraits made at different dates. The female figure is Louis XV's governess, the Duchesse de Ventadour, who commissioned the work - not Mme de Maintenon as used to be claimed. See Wallace Collection Catalogue/website.

Public domain The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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