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Portrait of a man with the Louvre   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL))
Artist
Anonymous (France)Unknown author
Title
Portrait of a man with the Louvre
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date circa 1662
date QS:P571,+1662-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 152 cm (59.8 in); width: 127.5 cm (50.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,152U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,127.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q2946
Accession number
MV 4346
Notes
  • The subject of this portrait was identified as Louis Le Vau in 1955 by Albert Laprade, who recognized the plan as that of the southwest corner of the old Louvre, that is the Bathing Apartment of the Queen Mother Anne d'Autriche, remodeled by Le Vau in the summer of 1661, and the building illustrated in the background as the pavilion north of the Louvre's Petite Galerie (Galerie d'Apollon), constructed after the fire of 1 February 1661 (see also Laprade 1960, chapter 3, plate 1). If the sitter is indeed Le Vau, then the artist is unknown.
  • A portrait reproduced by Devêche (see here or below) and identified as Le Vau appears to be the same man at a younger age.
  • Christophe Hardouin disputed Laprade's attribution in an unpublished thesis for the University of Paris and identified the painting as Pierre Rabon's presentation piece before the Academy on 3 July 1660, which portrayed Antoine de Ratabon (1617–1670), Surintendant des Bâtiments (see Thierry Bajou; also Hilary Ballon 1999, p. 201, note 8, who was unable to examine the thesis but cites Bajou). Bajou comments that the "building plan and the facade therefore correspond to projects and not to completed buildings. It is unfortunately, just as impossible to confirm this identification, by comparing the sitter's features with those in other painted, sculpted or engraved portraits."
Attributed to Pierre Rabon  (1619–1684)  wikidata:Q23644826
 
Alternative names
Pierre Rabon
Description French painter
English: Received as a member of the Académie royale on 3 July 1660 with Portrait of Monsieur Ratapon. Exhibited at the Salon of 1673 with Portrait of Monsieur Perier.
Date of birth/death 18 October 1619 Edit this at Wikidata 18 January 1684 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Le Havre Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
France Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q23644826,P5102,Q230768
References
  • Bajou, Thierry (1998). La peinture à Versailles : XVIIe siècle. [English edition: Paintings at Versailles: XVIIth Century, translated by Elizabeth Wiles-Portier, p. 76.] Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. ISBN 9782283017647. ISBN 9782283017654 (English edition).
  • Ballon, Hilary (1999). Louis Le Vau: Mazarin's Collège, Colbert's Revenge, p. 201, note 8. Princeton University Press.
  • Devêche, André (1981). The Tuileries Palace and Gardens. Paris: Maloine. OCLC 13623823 and 461768004.
  • Hardouin, Christophe (1994). "La Collection de portraits de l'Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture: Peintures entrées sous le règne de Louis XIV (1648–1715", Mémoire de D.E.A., Université de Paris IV, 1994, pp. 164–166.
  • Laprade, Albert (1955). "Portraits des premiers architectes de Versailles", Revue des Arts, March 1955, pp. 21–24. ISSN 0482-7872
  • Laprade, Albert (1960). François d'Orbay: Architecte de Louis XIV. Paris: Éditions Vincent, Fréal. OCLC 562063179, 780531730 and 1096782.
  • OCLC 65182775
Source/Photographer Les collections du château de Versailles
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  • Louis Le Vau, c. 1650 (from Devêche)
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