Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1710 - Portrait of a General Officer - fine art print

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What does the curator team of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art write about this 18th century artwork painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud? (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org)

This portrait is based on a prototype by Rigaud showing the comte d'Évreux as a young man that was painted in about 1703.

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In 1710 Hyacinthe Rigaud painted this 18th century artwork. The beyond 310 year-old original had the following size: 54 x 41 3/8 in (137,2 x 105,1 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the French artist as the technique for the artwork. Moveover, this artwork is part of the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is located in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1959 (public domain license). Creditline of the artwork: The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1959. Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a side ratio of 3 : 4, which implies that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Hyacinthe Rigaud was a painter, whose style can primarily be attributed to Baroque. The Baroque artist lived for 84 years, born in the year 1659 in Perpignan, Occitanie, France and passed away in 1743 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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