Portrait of a General Officer
Hyacinthe Rigaud
ca. 1710
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
54 x 41 3/8 in. (137.2 x 105.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.119
Tags
MilitaryMenPortraits
About the Artist
Hyacinthe Rigaud · 1659–1743
Rigaud was one of the foremost painters of the later reign of Louis XIV. His subjects were drawn largely from court circles, specializing in the state portrait. His style included a greater formality to portraiture, in contrast to the previous style of understated elegance made popular by Titian and Anthony van Dyck. Rigaud's style continued dominate official portraiture in France into the 18th ce...