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Louis XIV
1662
17th century
37.5 cm x 30.6 cm (14 3/4 in. x 12 1/16 in.)
Robert Nanteuil
(Rheims, 1623 - 1678, Paris)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, French
Medium and Support:
Engraving
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002
Accession Number:
2002.1898
In 1661, the year Louis XIV came of age and ascended the throne, Robert Nanteuil drew the pastel study for this print at Fontainebleau. Nanteuil engraved no less than eleven potraits of the King, only one of which reproduced a work by another artist. Such evidence that the engraver was received at court and sketched the King from life attests to the extent of printmakers’ newly acquired social status.