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Jean-Baptiste Vanloo's painting shows an elegant hunting party of the type enjoyed by Louis XV and his court. This oil sketch is a study for a picture painted in 1737 for Louis XV's dining room at the Château de Fontainebleau. #vanloo #louisxv #18thcentury
Born #OnThisDay in 1710: #LouisXV, King of France (1710-74)
Esquitarian portrait by #LouisMichelvanLoo (1707-71) & #CharlesCozette (1713-97), 1763
#Bourbon #leBienAimé #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1754: Charles Maurice de #Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), French politician under #LouisXVI, #Napoleon, #LouisXVIII & #LouisPhilippe
Portrait by Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823), 1807
#FrenchArt
The #JudithHowardCollection catalogue is now online. Sale date: 4th February.
This vibrant Vincennes circular #dish (plat d'entremets) from the first #LouisXV service date code for 1754-55 is estimated at £20,000-25,000.
View the #auction here https://t.co/NL4DbsmSAj
Une tendresse pour "La Bonne Reine", Marie Leszczynska, sa douceur est si bien exprimée dans cette toile de Nattier de 1748.
#Rouge #Reine #Marieleszczynska #louisXV #Versailles #Nattier #peinture #reinedefrance #polonaise
Born #OnThisDay in 1781: #LouisJoseph (1781-9), #Dauphin of #France, son of #LouisXVI & #MarieAntoinette
#Portrait by Adolf Ulrik #Wertmüller (1751-1811), 1784
#Bourbon #Portraiture #SwedishArt #ChildrenInArt
#Nationalmuseum
#23août 1754 : Naissance de Louis XVI, roi de France et de Navarre de 1774 à 1791 et roi des Français de 1791 à 1792.
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Louis XVI est le dernier roi de France de l'Ancien Régime.
#LouisXVI #Louis16 #Histoire #France #Versailles #Paris
How are you today @LouisXVI_FR? 😉
#OnThisDay #FrenchHistory #guillotine #LouisXVI #history
This "medicis #vase" is an identical #edition by the Ancienne #Manufacture Royale of a piece of Le Gobelet du Roy service ordered by #LouisXVI in 1783 👑 Today it may hold #flowers 💐, #fruits 🍇, punch 🍹 or simply ornate a #mantelpiece, so beautiful it is ✨
📸 Bertrand Bozon
Admirez la #Clio de #Boucher qui écrit l'#histoire du règne de #LouisXV @laBnF ! #histoire,#histoireDeLart et #Numismatics ! https://t.co/YYoAb2H74N