Circle of Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan 1659 - Paris 1743) Portrait of Philip V, King of Spain (Versailles 1683 – Madrid 1746) Oil on canvas (72 x 59 cm - In a lacquered and gilded wooden frame 87 x 74 cm) The complete details of this work can be consulted directly from the following - LINK - The painting examined here, depicting the King of Spain Philip V (Perpignan 1659 - Paris 1743), is to be placed in the circle of the painter Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan 1659 - Paris 1743), one of the most significant portrait painters of his time and a great interpreter of the French school. This is a work of excellent pictorial level: note the rendering of the facial features and the sharpness of the contours highlighted by light. The face is characterized by chiaroscuro passages that reproduce the light and its effects in a realistic manner, rendered with great skill. Philip V wears a black satin costume with a sword at his side, wears the rigid white Spanish collar and at the same time 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. In Spanish costume, this effigy is however fully in line with the French tradition of ceremonial portraiture, also testifying to the renewal that Rigaud had brought about, in particular through the relationship between the character and the splendor of the decoration. The work is inspired, reworked in a reduced format to make it suitable for a private commission, by the large painting that Rigaud made for the sovereign around 1700, now kept in the Louvre (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010057783), reproduced by the same atelier in numerous other versions. From the accounting records of Rigaud's workshop, from 1701 to 1708, there are about 21 replicas of this subject, made by the master or often with the help of collaborators such as Charles Viennot (1674-1706) and Adrien Leprieur (1671-1732), today in numerous private and public collections; including the painting in Madrid (Palacio Real) and the one kept at the Uffizi in Florence (imm1: https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/0900646199) both versions that for format and dimensions are reminiscent of the canvas we have proposed. The work is presented in a good state of conservation, completed by a lacquered and gilded wooden frame. For further information please contact us. You can also see the painting in our gallery in Riva del Garda, we will be happy to welcome you to show you our collection of works. In case of purchase of the work by non-Italian customers, it will be necessary to obtain an export permit which takes about 10/20 days, our gallery will take care of the entire phase until it is obtained. All costs of this operation are included. Follow us also on: https://www.instagram.com/galleriacastelbarco/?hl=it https://www.facebook.com/galleriacastelbarco/