File:Hyacinthe Rigaud - Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne - 2.jpg

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Summary

Hyacinthe Rigaud: Portrait of a Military Officer

Artist



Alternative names	Hyacinthe François Honoré Mathias Pierre André Jean Rigaud Hyacinthe Rigaud y Ros Hyacinthe Rigault
Description	French- painter, professor, drawer and pastellist
Date of birth/death	18 July 1659	29 December 1743
Location of birth/death	Perpignan	Paris
Work location	Perpignan (1669-1670), Lyon (1677-1681), Paris (1681-1743), Rome (1682), Perpignan (1695)
Authority file	: Q49898 VIAF: 71428427 ISNI: 0000000121387361 ULAN: 500024827 LCCN: no91019377 MusicBrainz: b8e97d59-acf2-4f18-8cfb-0be32a1b2135 WorldCat

Title

Portrait of a General Officer

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

This portrait is based on a prototype by Rigaud showing the comte d'Évreux as a young man that was painted in about 1703. Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne (1679-1753), Count of Évreux, Marshal of France

Depicted people

Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne

Date

circa 1710

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 137.2 cm (54 in)

; width: 105.1 cm (41.3 in)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	Manhattan, New York, United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 46″ N, 73° 57′ 48″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q160236 VIAF: 126238294 ISNI: 0000000419368761 ULAN: 500125157 LCCN: n79129629 NLA: 36247933 WorldCat

Current location

not on view

Accession number

59.119 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Object history

Provenance:

Pourtalès family, Neuchâtel;
Dr. and Mrs. Corrado Cramer Pourtalès, Milan (1871–his d. 1918);
Mrs. Corrado Cramer Pourtalès, Milan or Como (1918–d. 1935);
Cramer Pourtalès family, Milan or Como (from 1935;
sold to Böhler);
[Böhler, Munich, until 1959;
sold to MMA]

Exhibition history

Milan. Palazzo di Brera. "Esposizione delle opere d'arte antica," August 26–October 7, 1872, no. 20 (as "Ritratto d'un maresciallo," by Hyacinth Rigaud, lent by Corrado Cramer).
Milan. Palazzo della Permanente. "Ritratti del Settecento," 1910, no. 19 (as "Il Maresciallo Goffredo Maurizio de La Tour d'Auvergne," lent by Dott. Cramer Pourtalès, Milan).

References

Source/Photographer

www.metmuseum.org

Other versions

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	19:22, 8 July 2014	3,002 × 3,938 (10.1 MB)	Cromium	Scaled up version.
	10:10, 23 July 2009	1,501 × 1,969 (3.45 MB)	Sir Gawain	cropped
	10:07, 23 July 2009	1,527 × 2,000 (3.58 MB)	Sir Gawain	{{Information \|Description= {{de\|Porträt Henri Louis de la Tour d'Auvergnes, Graf von Évreux, Marschall von Frankreich}} {{en\|Portrait of Henri Louis de la Tour d'Auvergne, Count of Évreux, Maréchal de France}} {{fr\|Portrait de Henri Louis de la Tour