Louis XIV, ca. 1676

  • Robert Nanteuil, French, 1623-1678

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 20 1/2 × 17 inches (52.1 × 43.2 cm) Sheet: 20 5/8 × 17 inches (52.4 × 43.2 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

29.177

Stamped, in purple, verso: [monogram]

Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Nanteuil ad viuum pingebat Inscribed, lower right: et sculpebat cum priuil Regis 1676., Inscribed, upper left of oval border: CHRISTIANISSIMVS. Inscribed, upper right: LVDOVICVS XIIII. Inscribed, lower right: DEI GRA. FRANCIAE Inscribed, lower left: ET NAVARRE REX Inscribed, lower center: Off. humitt. subd. Antoinus d'Aquin Abbas.

1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Robert Nanteuil, Louis XIV, ca. 1676, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.177.