Portrait of Louis XIV

1779

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four (Bocher)
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 × 6 1/8 in. (22.8 × 15.6 cm) Plate: 8 9/16 × 5 13/16 in. (21.8 × 14.8 cm)
Collection no.: 17.3.756–1702
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Augustin de Saint-Aubin. Portrait of Louis XIV. Augustin de Saint-Aubin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Portrait of Louis XIV — Augustin de Saint-Aubin. 1779.

Medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four (Bocher). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 × 6 1/8 in. (22.8 × 15.6 cm) Plate: 8 9/16 × 5 13/16 in. (21.8 × 14.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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