
Sujet
Portrait of Infante Don Luis de Borbon, c. 1776. Creator: Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728-1779).
Légende
Portrait of Infante Don Luis de Borbon, c. 1776. As a younger child of King Philip V of Spain, Don Luis received important religious posts, including Archbishop of Toledo and Seville. However, his philandering led to losing these titles and banishment from the court, while he became a crucial avant-garde art patron, especially of Goya. The encrustations of medals and cacophonous fabrics speak to Mengs's experiments in representing status, privilege, and royal honors in the age of Enlightenment, when rational skepticism began to confront absolutist, hereditary power.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19G00_268
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
66,8Mo (4,5Mo) / 32,9cm x 50,8cm / 3890 x 6000 (300dpi)