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Description: | This picture was probably originally part of painted panelling, but its quality does not seem good enough for it to have been in a royal palace. It may therefore have been in a provincial official building. What appears to be the portrait of Louis XIV is being shown by Minerva, surrounded by allegories which may represent the Liberal Arts (grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy). The Académie Royale des Beaux Arts was founded in 1648 and united with the Académie d'Architecture, founded in 1671, under the reign of Louis XIV. | Subjects: | allegory (Minerva Liberal Arts); portrait (Louis XIV or XV) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Saint-Aubin, Gabriel de (French painter and printmaker, 1724-1780) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8961... | Go to resource |
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