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| Keywords: Louis Le Vau.jpg Artwork Unknown <br />or<br /> Oil on canvas size cm 152 127 5 Institution Palace of Versailles 1662 accession number MV 4346 http //collections chateauversailles fr/ permid permobj_3fe7917e-b23c-4dc4-b351-a03a8b5aaadb Les collections du château de Versailles The subject of this portrait was identified as Louis Le Vau in 1955 by Albert Laprade who recognized the plan as that of the southwest corner of the old Louvre that is the Bathing Apartment of the Queen Mother Anne d'Autriche remodeled by Le Vau in the summer of 1661 and the building illustrated in the background as the pavilion north of the Louvre's Petite Galerie Galerie d'Apollon constructed after the fire of 1 February 1661 see also Laprade 1960 chapter 3 plate 1 Christophe Hardouin disputed Laprade's attribution in an unpublished thesis for the University of Paris and identified the painting as Pierre Rabon's presentation piece before the Academy on 3 July 1660 which portrayed Antoine de Ratabon 1617 “1670 Surintendant des Bâtiments see Thierry Bajou; also Hilary Ballon 1999 p 201 note 8 who was unable to examine the thesis but cites Bajou Bajou comments that the building plan and the facade therefore correspond to projects and not to completed buildings It is unfortunately just as impossible to confirm this identification by comparing the sitter's features with those in other painted sculpted or engraved portraits Bajou Thierry 1998 La peinture Ă Versailles XVIIe siècle English edition Paintings at Versailles XVIIth Century translated by Elizabeth Wiles-Portier p 76 Paris RĂ©union des musĂ©es nationaux ISBN 9782283017647 ISBN 9782283017654 English edition Ballon Hilary 1999 Louis Le Vau Mazarin's Collège Colbert's Revenge p 201 note 8 Princeton University Press Hardouin Christophe 1994 La Collection de portraits de l'AcadĂ©mie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture Peintures entrĂ©es sous le règne de Louis XIV 1648 “1715 MĂ©moire de D E A UniversitĂ© de Paris IV 1994 pp 164 “166 Laprade Albert 1955 Portraits des premiers architectes de Versailles Revue des Arts March 1955 pp 21 “24 0482-7872 Laprade Albert 1960 François d'Orbay Architecte de Louis XIV Paris Éditions Vincent FrĂ©al 562063179 780531730 1096782 65182775 Portrait of a man with the Louvre by Pierre Rabon - Les collections du château de Versailles png <gallery> File Louis Le Vau - DevĂŞche 1981 p3 jpg Louis Le Vau c 1650 </gallery> PD-Art-100 17th-century portrait paintings in the MusĂ©e national du Château de Versailles Rabon Pierre Pierre Rabon Antoine de Ratabon Louis Le Vau North facade of the Petite Galerie Louvre 1662c Rotonde d'Apollon Louvre pavilion 1662c | ||||
