King Louis XIV, King of France (1638–1715) as a Child
after Claude Deruet (Nancy 1588 - Nancy 1660)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1642 (after) - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
720 x 567 mm (28 1/3 x 22 1/3 in)
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129147
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, King Louis XIV, King of France (1638–1715) as a Child, after Claude Deruet (Nancy 1588 – Nancy 1660). A three-quarter -length portrait, slightly right, wearing a white dress trimmed with lace, yellow sleeves, white cap with yellow feather and the order of St Esprit on his right shoulder, a cane held in his left hand. A similar portrait is in the Musee des Beaux Arts, Orleans.
Provenance
In Lady Louisa C. Cavendish, later Lady Egerton, Catalogue of the pictures at Hardwick Hall, 1860;and thence by descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Claude Deruet (Nancy 1588 - Nancy 1660), artist