Circle of Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan 1659 - Paris 1743)
Portrait of Philip V, King of Spain (Versailles 1683 – Madrid 1746)
Oil on canvas (72 x 59 cm. - In a 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 attributed to 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 French school.
It is a work of excellent pictorial quality: note the rendering of the facial features and the sharpness of the contours emphasized by the light. The face is characterized by chiaroscuro passages that plausibly reproduce the light and its effects, rendered with great mastery.
Philip V wears a black satin costume with a sword at his side, the stiff white Spanish collar, and simultaneously the blue sash of the Order of the Holy Spirit and the collar of the Habsburg Order of the Golden Fleece: this union of the two main orders of France and Spain foreshadowed 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, particularly through the relationship between the subject and the splendor of the decor.
The work is inspired by, reworked in a reduced format to make it suitable for a private commission, the large painting that Rigaud created for the sovereign around 1700, now preserved at the Louvre (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010057783), reproduced by the same studio in numerous other versions.
From the account books 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), now in numerous private and public collections; among these are the painting in Madrid (Palacio Real) and the one kept at the Uffizi in Florence (image 1: https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/0900646199), both versions that recall the canvas we offer in terms of format and dimensions.
The work is presented in a good state of conservation, complete with a lacquered and gilded wooden frame.
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