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| Title | Portrait of Philippe Duc d'Orléans, Regent of France (1674 - 1723) | |
| Collection | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Santerre, Jean-Baptiste (French painter, 1651-1717) | |
| Date Earliest | about 1710 | |
| Date Latest | about 1717 | |
| Description | This grandiose image follows in the tradition of French royal portraiture established by Rigaud's portrait of Louis XIV. Philippe, Duc d'Orléans was Louis' nephew and was anointed Regent from 1715-1723 during the minority of Louis XV. He is depicted wearing armour and holding the baton of a Marshal of the French armies to underline the military basis of France's (and his own) power. | |
| Current Accession Number | 1967P52 | |
| Former Accession Number | P.52´67 | |
| Subject | portrait (Philippe, Duc d'Orléans) | |
| Measurements | 126.4 x 101 cm.0 cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Purchased from David Peel & Co. Ltd 1967. | |
| Provenance | Guggenheim [?]; Sotheby's sale, 11 July 1962, lot 12 as signed and 57 x 44 ins, bought by Herner Wengraf Ltd, cut down. | |
| Publications | Foreign Paintings in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, A Summary Catalogue, 1983, no. 130. | |
| Notes | Apparently cut down from the picture at Sotheby's, supposedly signed but this lost when canvas cut down. Engraved by Marie-Anne-Hycinthe Horthemels. Copy by Nicolas de Largillière sold Sotheby's, 3 - 4 July 1993, lot 1. Another by follower of Largillière sold Sotheby's at Summers Place, Billingshurst, West Sussex, 17 - 18 May 1994, lot 958. | |
| Rights Owner | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Author | Dr Patricia Smyth | |