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Louis le grand roy de France [print].

Accession number
PML 5638.1
Published
A Paris : Chez Trouvain ruë St Jacques, 1695.
Notes
Title from item.
Imprint statement reads in full: Tous les Portraits de la Cour et autres se vendent A Paris chez Trouvain ruë St Jacques au grand Monarque avec priv. [below] 1695.
Item no. 1 of v. 1 of a set of 2 bound albums containing a total 170 collected engravings (see PML 5638-39).
Print mounted on bound leaf measuring 524 x 352 mm.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 276 x 200 mm; plate mark: 307 x 203 mm; sheet: 351 x 242 mm
Summary
Full-length portrait of Louis XIV, King of France, standing, in jewelled brocade coat and facing 3/4 left, behind him a high backed tassled armchair and in front of him a table, holding a baton in his right hand as he gestures with his left to a paper upon which a plan for a building or fortification is visible.
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