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Henri Testelin
Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of Sciences to Louis XIV in 1667
1660s
Oil on canvas
348 x 590 cm
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Henri Testelin
Portrait of Louis XIV of France
1667(1667)
Oil on canvas
390 ?? 290 cm (153.5 ?? 114.2 in)
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Henri Testelin
Louis XIV en
1648(1648)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 205 x 152 cm (80.7 x 59.8 in)
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Henri Testelin
Portrait of Louis XIV
1648(1648)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 205 x 152 cm (80.7 x 59.8 in)
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Henri Testelin
Portrait of Louis XIV, only ten years old, but already king of France
Date 1648(1648)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 205 X 152 cm (80.7 X 59.8 in)
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(Paris, 1616 - The Hague, 1695) was a French art painter.
Henri Testelin made portraits of Louis XIV, important persons and events at the French court . Several of his paintings can be seen in the palace of Versailles. The portraits, like the one of the young Louis XIV, show the influence of Jean Nocret and Le Brun.
He was secretary of Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture from 1650 and professor from 1656. In 1680 he published a book on art theory and the academy. Testelin was dismissed from the Academy in 1681, because he was proptestant. He left France and went to Holland.
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