Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes

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Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes is a grand Baroque-era state portrait that glorifies the French king’s absolute power and royal magnificence through elaborate regalia and imposing pose.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque artwork
painting
state portrait
artisticStyle grand manner portraiture
collection Louvre Museum
surface form: Musée du Louvre collection
commissionedBy Louis XIV of France
countryOfOrigin France
creator Hyacinthe Rigaud
depicts Louis XIV of France
depictsAgeAtTimeOfDepiction Louis XIV in his early sixties
depictsClothing coronation robes
ermine-lined mantle
depictsFootwear red high-heeled shoes
depictsObject column
crown
heavy drapery
throne
depictsPositionHeld Louis XIV of France
surface form: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre
depictsSymbol fleur-de-lis
hand of justice
royal scepter
depictsTitle King of France
exemplifies visual rhetoric of absolutism
exhibitedAt Louvre Museum
surface form: Louvre Museum, Paris
genre portrait
hasInfluenced iconography of royal power in painting
official portraits of later French monarchs
hasPart architectural column setting
draped curtain background
pedestal with crown and regalia
imageOf Sun King iconography
inception 1701
influenced later royal portraiture in Europe
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Paris
Île-de-France region
surface form: Île-de-France
locatedInTheCountry France
location Louvre Museum
materialUsed oil paint
movement Baroque
notableFeature emphasis on royal regalia
full-length standing pose
illusionistic rendering of textiles
originalLanguageTitle Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes self-linksurface differs
surface form: Portrait de Louis XIV en costume de sacre
purpose glorification of absolute monarchy
royal propaganda
significantEvent creation during the later reign of Louis XIV
surface canvas

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Hyacinthe Rigaud notableWork Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes
Hyacinthe Rigaud notableWork Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes
this entity surface form: Portrait of Louis XIV
Pierre Mignard notableWork Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes
this entity surface form: Portrait of Louis XIV
Jean-Baptiste Santerre notableWork Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes
this entity surface form: Portrait of Louis XIV
Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes originalLanguageTitle Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Portrait de Louis XIV en costume de sacre
Hyacinthe François Honoré Mathias Pierre Martyr Rigaud notableWork Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes
Hyacinthe François Honoré Mathias Pierre Martyr Rigaud notableWork Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes
this entity surface form: Portrait of Louis XIV in Royal Costume
Le Romain notableWork Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Robes
subject surface form: Pierre Mignard
this entity surface form: Portraits of Louis XIV