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Studio of Henri Testelin Paris 1616 - 1695 The Hague
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- Henri Testelin
- Portrait of Louis XIV, seated, three quarter length, dressed in robes of state
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, January 9, 1981, lot 208 (as Louis Testelin).
Catalogue Note
This portrait is based on the figure of Louis XIV in Testelin's monumental Louis XIV as Protector of the Arts of 1668 in Versailles, (see E. Coquery, "Le Portrait de Louis", in Visages d'un Grand Siècle, exhibition catalogue, Paris/Nantes/Toulouse 1997, p. 77, reproduced).