Hyacinthe Rigaud

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Self portrait (1698)

Louis XIV
King of France and Navarre
by Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701), his most famous work.

"Gaspard de Gueidan playing the musette" (Gaspard de Gueidan en joueur de musette, 1738), Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence.

Hyacinthe Rigaud (18 July 1659, Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales)–29 December 1743, Paris) was a French baroque painter of Catalan origin whose career was based in Paris. He is renowned for his portrait paintings of Louis XIV, the royalty and nobility of Europe, and members of their courts.

Biography

Rigaud was born Jacint Rigau i Ros^[1] -- though in many encyclopaedias is "re-christened" with the name of Híacint Francesc Honrat Mathias Pere Martyr Andreu Joan Rigau^[2] -- in Perpignan, which became part of France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees (7 November 1659) shortly after his birth.

In 1682, he was awarded the Prix de Rome.

He was the most important portrait painter during the reign of King Louis XIV. His instinct for impressive poses and grand presentations precisely suited the tastes of the royal personages, ambassadors, clerics, courtiers, and financiers who sat for him.

Because Rigaud's paintings captured very exact likenesses along with the subject's costumes and background details, his paintings are considered precise records of contemporary fashions. Rigaud was a master of the Baroque style of art. Rigaud's best-known work is his 1701 painting of Louis XIV which today hangs in the Louvre in Paris, as well as the second copy also requested by Louis XIV that now hangs at the Palace of Versailles.^[3]

In 1709, he was made a noble by his hometown of Perpignan. In 1727 he was made a knight of the Order of Saint Michael.

Rigaud died in Paris in 1743 at the age of 84.

In 1820, the Musée des beaux-arts Hyacinthe Rigaud in Perpignan, France, was dedicated to him. It is still open to the public and shows some of his work.^[4]

Selected works

• Portrait of Graf Philipp Ludwig Wenzel Sinzendorf, 1712, oil on canvas, 166 x 132 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• Portrait of Philippe de Courcillon, Marquis de Dangeau, 1702, oil on canvas, 162 x 150 cm, Musée national du château de Versailles et des Trianons, Versailles
• Portrait of Louis XIV, 1701, oil on canvas, 279 x 190 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
• ditto, oil on canvas, 238 x 149 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid
• ditto, oil on canvas, 1694 (full shot portrait), Musée du Louvre, Paris
• ditto, oil on canvas, 1715 (full shot portrait, "State Portrait"), Musée national du château de Versailles et des Trianons, Versailles
• Portrait of the artist's mother, 1695, oil on canvas, 83 x 103 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Portrait of Everhard Jabach, 1688, oil on canvas, 58,5 x 47 cm, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
• Studies Of Spaniels And Whippets, And A Study Of A White Headdress, oil on canvas
• Portrait of a Scholar, oil on canvas, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
• Portrait of Pierre Imbert Drevet, c. 1700, oil on canvas, 116 x 89 cm, Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, France
• Portrait of Louis XV of France at the age 5, wearing the Coronation Robes, 1715, oil on canvas, Musée national du château de Versailles et des Trianons, Versailles
• Portrait of Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, c. 1719, oil on canvas, Musée national du château de Versailles et des Trianons, Versailles
• Portrait of La comtesse de Selles Marguerite-Henriette de Labriffe , 1712, oil on canvas
• Portrait of Charles Auguste d'Allonville de Louville, Marquis de Louville, 1708, oil on canvas, private collection
• Portrait of Frederick IV of Denmark, Nationalhistoriske Museum, Frederiksborg Palace, Denmark
• Portrait of Sebastien Bourdon, drawing, 1731, 36,1 × 24,9 cm, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main
• Portrait of Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis d'Antin, c. 1710
• Portrait of Augustus II the Strong, oil on canvas, 1715, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
• Portrait of Martin van der Bogaert, drawing, c. 1700, 37,4 × 28,7 cm, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main
• Portrait of a young scholar, drawing, 1685, 31,4 × 25,5 cm, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main
• Portrait of Cardinal Henri Oswald de La Tour d'Auvergne, 1732, oil on canvas, 142 × 113 cm, private collection.
• Portrait of Nicolas Le Camus, drawing, c. 1701, 38,4 × 29,4 cm, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main

References

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