Louis XIV de France
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English: Louis XIV (* 5 September, 1638; † 1 September, 1715) was from May 14th, 1643 until his death, King of France and Navarre, the third of the House of Bourbon of the Capetian dynasty. He was the French head of state (the King of France) longer than anyone else throughout history.
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[edit] Portraits
[edit] State Portraits ; "en Manteau de Sacre"
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 1643 |
 1646 |
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 1648 |
 1665 |
 1674 |
 1685 |
 1690s |
 1701 |
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[edit] Portraits in Armour
 Louis 8-10 years old (1646-1648) |
 1661 |
 1662 |
 1663 |
 1660s |
 1672 |
 1675 |
 1676 |
 1684 |
 1690 |
 1701 |
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[edit] Portraits as Allegory
 Louis as Jupiter |
 Louis as Alexander the Great |
 The royal familly as Roman gods (1670) |
 Louis as protector of the fine arts (1667) |
 Apotheosis of Louis XIV (1677) |
[edit] Equestrian Portraits
 1648 |
 1662 |
 1672 |
 1674 |
 1679 |
 1692 |
 1704 |
[edit] Engravings
 Ballet: Louis as Apollo (1653) |
 Coronation of Louis XIV in Reims 1654 |
 1664 |
 1664 |
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 1672 |
 1676 |
 1682 |
 1682 |
 1684 |
 1687 |
 1689 |
 Louis XIV playing Billard (1694) |
 Glorification of Louis XIV |
 Hommage au Roy (1700) |
 1700 |
 1705 |
 1705 |
 1714 |
 Convoy et Pompe funebre de Louis XIV (1715) |
[edit] Historical Scenes
 Louis XIV and Philippe IV at Isle des Faisans (1659) |
 Wedding (1660) |
 Louis and the Swiss amassador (1663) |
 Louis XIV receiving the pope's ambassador (1664) |
 Foundation of the Observatory of Paris (1666) |
 War of Devolution (1667) |
 Louis XIV and Maria Teresa in Arras 1667 (War of Devolution) |
 The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) |
 Louis XIV passing the Rhine (1672) |
 Louis XIV visiting the siege of Maastricht (1673) |
 Réparation faite à Louis XIV par le doge de Gênes dans la Galerie des Glaces de Versailles (1685) |
 Wedding of Louis Duc de Bourgogne (1697) |
 Louis XIV and his heirs (1711) |
 Louis between King Auguste from Poland and Louis XIV, Madame la Palatine (1714) |
[edit] Louis XIV in Tapestry
 Coronation in Reims (1654) |
 Siege of Dunkerque (1658) |
 Official excuses of Spanish envoys (1662) |
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 Le roy visitant la Manufacture royale des meubles de la couronne (1667) |
 La construction des Invalides |
 Louis XIV at the siege of Duisburg (Dutch War) |
[edit] Others & Details
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 Louis XIV in Paris, 1660 |
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 1664 |
 1666 |
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 Louis XIV in his state council (1672) |
 1674 |
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 1701 |
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 Wax portrait of Louis XIV by Antoine Benoist (1706) |
 1713 |
[edit] Sculpture
 Louis as child |
 Versailles, Le salon de Diane; by Bernini 1665 |
 Versailles, Le salon de Vénus; by Warin 1672 |
 Versailles, La chambre du Roi; by Coysevox 1679 |
 Louvre, detail of a commode; by Boulle |
 Louis XIV (Versailles) |
 Louis XIV (Versailles) |
 Hôtel de Carnavalet, Sculpture by Coysevox |
 Sculpture of Louis XIV on the Place Vendôme, Rene Antoine Houasse, 1700 |
 Sculpture of Louis XIV on the Place Vendôme, draft version 1692, François Girardon |
 Place des Victoires, Paris, today |
 Place des Victoires, Paris, today |
 Place des Victoires, Paris, today |
 [Original] Sculpture of Louis XIV by Desjardins on the Place des Victoires, Nicolaus Arnoult, 1686 |
 Place des Victoires, Paris, 1710 |
 Louis XIV at the Château de Chambord |
 Bas-relief of Louis XIV |
 Cenotaph - Royal Crypt Basilica of Saint Denis |
 Fronton de l'entrée de l'Hotel des Invalides, Paris, 1675 |
 Louis XIV, Place Bellecour, Lyon |
 La Peinture et la Sculpture présentant le médaillon de Louis XIV, 1682 |
 Paris, Palais du Louvre, by Bernini, 1670 |
[edit] Manuscripts
 Signature 1682 |
 1667 |
 1688 |
 1700 |
 Testament |
[edit] Maps
 Europe 1648 |
 France 1684 |
 Europe 1700 |
 Europe 1713 after the treaty of Utrecht |
 France 1715 |
 Growth of France under Louis XIV (1643–1715) |
[edit] Caricatures
 Louis XIV as Satyr with Madame de Montespan, Joseph Werner, 1670 |
 Louis XIV with his Harem, unknow artist, 1693 |
 Louis XIV the Usurper (L'habit usurpé), unknown Dutch artist, c. 1705 |
 What makes the King ?, W. M. Thackeray, The Paris Sketchbook, 1840 |
[edit] Coins
 Quart d'écu |
 Quarte sols dits des traitants |
[edit] Coat of Arms
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[edit] See also
- André Le Nôtre (landscape architect, le jardinier du roi)
- Anna of Austria (mother of Louis XIV, la reine-mère)
- Charles Le Brun (painter, le Premier peintre du roi)
- Château de Versailles (palace of Louis XIV)
- Hyacinthe Rigaud (portrait-painter, le peintre du roi)
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert (minister of Louis XIV, le contrôleur général des finances et ministre du roi)
- Jules Mazarin (prime minister until 1661, le Premier ministre du roi)
- Les Invalides (the royal hospital, l'hôtel national des Invalides)
- Louis XIII (father of Louis XIV, roi de France)
- Louis XV (great-grandchild and successor, roi de France)
- Madame de Maintenant (second wife)
- Madame de Montespan (mistress)
- Madame la Princesse Palatine (sister-in-law)
- Molière (playwright of Louis XIV, le chef de la Troupe du Roi)
- Philippe d'Orléans (brother)
- Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (military engineer)
- Statues of Louis XIV
- Wars of Louis XIV
