RIGAUD, Hyacinthe
(b. 1659, Perpignan, d. 1743, Paris)

Louis XIV

1701
Oil on canvas, 238 x 149 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

The dawning of the eighteenth century in France is marked by the culmination of the work of court portrait painters such as Hyacinthe Rigaud, who with great brilliance established the characteristics of the facial portrait, here represented by Louis XIV.