Rigaud painted this portrait of Louis XIV in 1701, after the fictional events in “The Man in the Iron Mask”. Louis had originally commissioned this as a gift for the King of Spain, but Louis liked it so much he kept it and hung it in Versailles.
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King Louis XIV last modified January 7th, 2012.