Portrait of Philip V, King of Spain (Versailles 1683 – Madrid 1746), Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan 1659 – Paris 1743) Circle

Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan 1659 – Paris 1743) Circle

Portrait of Philip V, King of Spain (Versailles 1683 – Madrid 1746)

Oil on canvas (72 x 59 cm. – In lacquered and gilded wooden frame 87 x 74 cm.)

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The painting examined here, depicting the King of Spain Philip V (Perpignan 1659 – Paris 1743), is to be placed in the circle of the painter Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan 1659 – Paris 1743), one of the most significant portraitists of his time and a great interpreter of the school French.

It is a work of excellent pictorial quality: note the rendering of the facial features and the sharpness of the contours underlined by the light. The face is characterized by chiaroscuro passages which reproduce the light and its effects in a plausible manner, rendered with great skill.

Philip V wears a black satin costume with a sword at his side, wears the stiff white Spanish collar and at the same time wears the blue sash of the Order of the Holy Spirit and the collar of the Habsburg Order of the Golden Fleece: this meeting of the two main orders of France and Spain announced the possibility of a union between the two crowns.

In Spanish costume, this effigy is however fully in line with the French tradition of ceremonial portraiture, also testifying to the renewal that Rigaud had brought about, in particular through the relationship between the character and the pomp of the decoration.

The work is inspired, reworked in a smaller format to make it suitable for a private commission, by the large painting that Rigaud created for the sovereign around 1700, now preserved in the Louvre (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark :/53355/cl010057783), reproduced by the same atelier in numerous other versions.

From the accounting records of Rigaud's workshop, from 1701 to 1708, there are approximately 21 replicas of this subject, made by the master or often with the help of collaborators such as Charles Viennot (1674-1706) and Adrien Leprieur (1671-1732), today in numerous private and public collections; among these the painting in Madrid (Palacio Real) and the one kept in the Uffizi in Florence (imm1: https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/0900646199) both versions which in terms of format and dimensions resemble the canvas proposed by us.

The work is presented in a good state of conservation, completed by a lacquered and gilded wooden frame.

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