Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France

• Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France
• Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France

SK-A-3278

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.

painter: workshop of Joseph Duplessis

c. 1777 - c. 1789

olieverf op doek

height 81 cm x width 64.5 cm

Gift of B. de Geus van den Heuvel, Amsterdam

gift 1939-05

Public domain

…; sale, Alphonse Lambert Eugène de Stuers (1841 - 1919) Paris, Amsterdam (Mensing), 12 April 1932, no. 278, fl. 300 to Jacobson;{Copy RKD.} ...; donated by Bastiaan de Geus van den Heuvel (1886 - 1976), Amsterdam, with xx other objects, to the museum, 1939

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