ID: 700007108 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700007108	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Head of King Louis XV (drawing (visual work); François Le Moyne (French painter, 1688-1737); about 1729; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 96.GB.22;)

Note: The pastel shows King Louis XV, great grandson of King Louis XIV, at the age of nineteen. At this time, guided by his chief advisor Cardinal Fleury, the King's principal political concern was to build a central role for France as peacemaker in Europe. The allegorical portrait for which this pastel was preparatory was therefore as much a propagandistic image as it was a likeness of the young ruler.

Titles:

Head of King Louis XV (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

preparatory study [300081078]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by function>, studies (visual works))

pastel (visual work) [300076922]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1729

Creator Display:

François Le Moyne (French painter, 1688-1737) [preferred,JPGM]

painter Le Moyne, François (French painter, 1688-1737) [500027784]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 96.GB.22

Display Materials: Black chalk and pastel on faded blue paper

	chalk [300011727]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

	pastels (crayons) [300122621]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>, crayons (drawing material))

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: 29.5 x 21 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Baroque [300021147] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>)

General Subject:

history and legend (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	Louis XV, King of France (French king, 1710-1774) [500122354]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	portrait [300015637]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

	heads (representations) [300262520]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Label: On the back of an old mount, a label inscribed in black ink, "M. David Weill/Neuilly"; a label inscribed, "Exposition Quentin de La Tour et des Pastellistes Français des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles en l'Hotel Jean Charpentier, 76, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris du 23 Mai au 25 Juin 1927"; a label inscribed, "Boucher/ Louis XV Jeune" overwritten with "Monsieur David Weill/ 16, rue de Chezy Neuilly/Seine/ Mademoiselle Capet (?)/ Portrait au Marie Joseph Chaurier"; and various French customs stamps.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Head of King Louis XV	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) accessed 24 February 2014

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) accessed 24 February 2014