Louis XV (1710–1774) at the Age of Five in the Costume of the Sacre, Hyacinthe Rigaud, ca. 1716–24

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Louis XV (1710–1774) at the Age of Five in the Costume of the Sacre, ca. 1716–24, Oil on canvas, 77 x 55 1/2 in. ( x 141 cm), Paintings, Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, Perpignan 1659–1743 Paris) and Workshop, Louis XV succeeded to the throne of France in 1715 upon the death of his great-grandfather, Louis XIV, who had reigned for more than seventy years. The five-year-old boy was the only surviving son of Louis, duc de Bourgogne, and Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, both of whom had died of smallpox in 1712

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