thumb|Self portrait (1698) Louis XIV
King of France and Navarre
by Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701), his most famous work.  "Gaspard de Gueidan playing the musette" ( Gaspard de Gueidan en joueur de musette, 1738), Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence. ( 18 July 1659, Perpignan ( Pyrénées-Orientales)– 29 December 1743, Paris) was a French baroque painter of Catalan origin whose career was based in Paris. He is renowned for his portrait paintings of Louis XIV, the royalty and nobility of Europe, and members of their courts. BiographyRigaud was born Jacint Rigau i Ros -- though in many encyclopaedias is "re-christened" with the name of Híacint Francesc Honrat Mathias Pere Martyr Andreu Joan Rigau -- in Perpignan, which became part of France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees ( 7 November 1659) shortly after his birth. In 1682, he was awarded the Prix de Rome. He was the most important portrait painter during the reign of King Louis XIV. His instinct for impressive poses and grand presentations precisely suited the tastes of the royal personages, ambassadors, clerics, courtiers, and financiers who sat for him. Because Rigaud's paintings captured very exact likenesses along with the subject's costumes and background details, his paintings are considered precise records of contemporary fashions. Rigaud was a master of the Baroque style of art. Rigaud's best-known work is his 1701 painting of Louis XIV which today hangs in the Louvre in Paris, as well as the second copy also requested by Louis XIV that now hangs at the Palace of Versailles. In 1709, he was made a noble by his hometown of Perpignan. In 1727 he was made a knight of the Order of Saint Michael. Rigaud died in Paris in 1743 at the age of 84. In 1820, the Musée des beaux-arts Hyacinthe Rigaud in Perpignan, France, was dedicated to him. It is still open to the public and shows some of his work. Selected works- Portrait of Louis XIV, 1701, oil on canvas, 279 x 190 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
- ditto, oil on canvas, 1694 (full shot portrait), Musée du Louvre, Paris
- ditto, oil on canvas, 1715 (full shot portrait, "State Portrait"), Musée national du château de Versailles et des Trianons, Versailles
- Portrait of the artist's mother, 1695, oil on canvas, 83 x 103 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Studies Of Spaniels And Whippets, And A Study Of A White Headdress, oil on canvas
- Portrait of Louis XV of France at the age 5, wearing the Coronation Robes, 1715, oil on canvas, Musée national du château de Versailles et des Trianons, Versailles
- Portrait of La comtesse de Selles Marguerite-Henriette de Labriffe , 1712, oil on canvas
- Portrait of Charles Auguste d'Allonville de Louville, Marquis de Louville, 1708, oil on canvas, private collection
- Portrait of Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis d'Antin, c. 1710
- Portrait of Martin van der Bogaert, drawing, c. 1700, 37,4 × 28,7 cm, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main
- Portrait of a young scholar, drawing, 1685, 31,4 × 25,5 cm, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main
- Portrait of Cardinal Henri Oswald de La Tour d'Auvergne, 1732, oil on canvas, 142 × 113 cm, private collection.
- Portrait of Nicolas Le Camus, drawing, c. 1701, 38,4 × 29,4 cm, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main
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