The Dauphin (later King Louis XIV, King of France (1638–1715) and Philippe, duc D’Anjou (later Philippe, duc d’Orleans (1640-1701) as children
after Claude Deruet (Nancy 1588 - Nancy 1660)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1640
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
600 x 1070 mm (23⅝ x 42⅛ in); left-hand oval (20¼ x 16½ in) 515 x 420 mm; right-hand oval (20¼ x 16¾ in) 515 x 425 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Cliveden Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 766125
Summary
Oil painting on canvas [the two portraits were originally on separate canvases, from which each was transferred- a method much used in France in the 18th (and early 19th?) century- to a single canvas, with a strip of gesso between them, and painted over to disguise the fact], The Dauphin (later King Louis XIV, King of France (1638–1715) and Philippe, duc D’Anjou (later Philippe, duc d’Orleans (1640-1701) as children after Claude Deruet (Nancy 1588 – Nancy 1660), circa 1640.Two portraits in simulated oval gilt frames with 18th-century-style mosaïque laid down on a single canvas. At the left, half-length portrait of the Duc d’Anjou, wearing a lace bonnet with a yellow feather, yellow dress, white lace collar and cuffs, and the cordon of the Order of the St. Esprit; he holds a silver-knobbed stick illusionistically breaking out of the frame. At the right, half-length portrait of the Dauphin, wearing a bonnet with a blue feather, brocade and white lace dress and the Order of the St. Esprit; he holds a Maltese terrier.
Provenance
Probably one of the historical portraits acquired by the 3rd Earl Gower (later 1st Duke of Sutherland, 1758-1833), and subsequently changing hands with the house, which was given to the National Trust, with selected contents, by the 2nd Viscount Astor in 1942
Credit line
Cliveden, The Astor Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Claude Deruet (Nancy 1588 - Nancy 1660), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Philippe de Champaigne (Brussels 1602 - Paris 1674), artist