Circle of Pierre Gobert (Fontainebleau 1662 - Paris 1744)
Pair of portraits
Portrait of Philip V, King of Spain (Versailles 1683 – Madrid 1746)
Portrait of Queen Louise of Savoy (1688-1714), Savoyard princess and first wife of Philip V of Spain
Oils on panels applied to canvas (2)
41 x 33 cm.
in antique frame 50 x 42 cm.
It is easy to identify the effigies of this fascinating pair of portraits with the rulers Philip V of Bourbon (Versailles, 1683 - Madrid, 1746) king of Spain, with Maria Luisa of Savoy (Turin, 1688 - Madrid, 1714), Savoyard princess and his first wife.
Crowned king in 1700, at the behest of Charles II of Habsburg his predecessor, he adopted for some years in his portraits clothing of seventeenth-century derivation, still in use at the court of Madrid, with clear legitimizing intentions: he therefore exhibits the black satin costume with wide sleeves and wears the rigid white Spanish collar. At the same time he wears the blue sash of the Order of the Holy Spirit and the collar of the Habsburg Order of the Golden Fleece: this meeting of the two main orders of France and Spain announced the possibility of a union between the two crowns.
The queen, the third daughter of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, Duke of Savoy and future King of Sicily and his wife Anna Maria of Bourbon-Orléans, is also portrayed smiling and facing the viewer; she wears a wig with her hair gathered around the nape of her neck and a diadem on her head, and wears a sober dark dress for the same principle adopted by her husband.
The executive style of the two portraits falls within the typical production of Pierre Gobert (Fontainebleau 1662 - Paris 1744), one of the most significant and sought-after portrait painters of his time and a great interpreter of the French school, working in France at the courts of Louis XIV and then Louis XV; during his career he obtained a large number of commissions, with a volume of work that implied the existence of a complex workshop: it is therefore plausible to hypothesize that these paintings were made by a direct collaborator of his, active in the early years of the eighteenth century.
The pair of works is presented in very good condition, with beautiful carved and gilded wooden frames, also in excellent condition.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
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