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Louis XIV

Pierre Louis van Schuppen

1662

Louis XIV by Pierre Louis van Schuppen

Medium

Engraving on paper

Dimensions

Plate: 27.1 × 19.2 cm (10 11/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet: 33.2 × 24.3 cm (13 1/8 × 9 5/8 in.)

Classification

print

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

109065

Art Historical Context

Step into the grandeur of 17th-century France withLouis XIV*, a striking engraving by Pierre Louis van Schuppen in 1662. This portrait captures the young Sun King at age 24, during the early years of his absolute monarchy, a time when Louis XIV was consolidating power and projecting an image of divine-right authority. Produced just two decades after his ascension to the throne, the print exemplifies how visual propaganda helped immortalize the monarch's regal presence across Europe. Van Schuppen, a skilled Flemish engraver working in Paris, employed the meticulous technique of engraving on pa...

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