Portrait of Louis XVI (1745-93)

ca. 1774

65.7 cm 79.3 cm

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This tapestry, reproducing a portrait of the king painted at the time of his coronation by Joseph Duplessis (1774), was presented as a state gift to Prince Henry of Prussia in 1784. It remained in the possession of the reigning family of Germany until 1919. The king wears the...

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Louis XVI, Paris, 1774 [woven expressly for the King by the Gobelins factory]; Henry of Prussia, 1784, by gift; Royal family of Prussia, by inheritance; Kaiser Wilhelm II, until 1918, by inheritance [confiscated when the Kaiser attempted to flee to Doorn in Holland]; Pollak [dealer], Brussels, [date of aquisition unknown] by purchase; Mr. and Mrs. William Hallam Tuck, Upper Marlboro, MD, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1956, by gift.
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wool