Portrait of Cardinal Guillaume Dubois

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Portrait of Cardinal Guillaume Dubois

Hyacinthe RigaudLinkedCulture matchlcp-cbcf0d6abbf7

Date
1723
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
France, 18th century
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
143206

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With his luxurious, flamboyant dress—a voluminous wrap of scarlet silk topped by a short fur cape—the subject of Hyacinthe Rigaud’s portrait was clearly a man of consequence. Guillaume Dubois gained the favor of Louis XIV as tutor to his nephew, Philippe Charles, Duke of Orléans, and served as chief minister under Louis’s successors, the regent Duke of Orléans and Louis’s great-grandson, Louis XV. Dubois was appointed a Cardinal in the Catholic Church in 1721, a lofty aspiration at least partly motivated by political ambition: the title gave him the ability to remove political adversaries with impunity. Dubois holds a letter with the words Au Roy (to the king); this portrait was painted in the same year the young Louis XV ascended to the throne.

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Credit line
John L. Severance Fund
Provenance
1967-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | 1956-1957: (Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1956: (Hôtel Drouot, sale, Dec. 10, 1956, lot Q, sold to Wildenstein & Co.)1 | 1907: Edouard Kann, Berlin1 | 1905-1907: (Duveen Brothers, Paris, sold to Edouard Kann)1 | By 1900-1907: Rodolphe Kann, Paris, collection purchased by the Duveen Brothers | (Possibly P. & D. Colnaghi, London) 1 | 1892: (Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 21, 1892, no. 68, possibly sold to P. & D. Colnaghi)1 | -1845: George Francis Wyndham, 4th Earl of Egremont [1786 – 1845] | by 1764: Mlle. Violat (heiress of Cardinal Dubois), Chateau de Villemenon, near Brie-Comte-Robert 1

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