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| 'Portrait of Louis XV (1715-74) in His Coronation Robes' (1730) by Hyacinthe Rigaud; Château de Versailles |
Today I could not find a painter whose work I liked well enough to do a post on. Wikipedia is my main source for a little bit of research and I decided to choose a historical event and an artwork to go with the historical figure. The event occurred on the 5th of January, 1757, when Louis XV survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person in France to receive the death penalty to be hanged, drawn and quartered. I've chosen this painting because of the wonderful robes. I find them deliciously outrageous. Hyacinthe Rigaud is the artist, who was most famous for his painting of the other Louis, number XIV. Click here.
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