Louis XIV Of France
Christie’s Classic Week
Classic Week at Christie’s London is an unmissable opportunity to bring home a piece of history. Spanning 12 auctions this July, works range from Old Master paintings, sculpture, furniture and decorative arts to rare and remarkable pieces with extraordinary provenance, offered at all price points.
Highlights include a reattributed masterpiece by Rubens, Thomas Chippendale furniture, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, a collection of portrait miniatures, an Egyptian mummy mask and Ancient Greek pottery.
Explore the works in person in our King Street galleries from
30 June – 11 July.
Special features
Collections
Masterpieces from the court of the ‘Sun King’
The most significant bronzes to come to market in years, and a scaled version of marbles from the gardens at Versailles
Instigated and conferred by Louis XIV of France, two of the most significant bronze sculptures to come to the market in recent years, and a scale version of four marble figures created for the gardens at Versailles — offered in London on 5 July
Louis XIV of France and Navarre (1638-1715), who reigned for an extraordinary 72 years and 110 days, was perhaps even more interested in art than in politics. Known as the ‘Sun King’, the great connoisseur and collector envisaged a unified style in the arts — classicism — that would glorify his reputation at home in France and across the courts of Europe.
https://www.christies.com/features/Masterpieces-from-the-court-of-the-Sun-King-9268-3.aspx?PID=mslp_related_features1
Viewing
30June-12 July
8 King Street
London SW1Y 6QT
Related Links:
Masterpieces from the court of the ‘Sun King’
https://www.christies.com/features/Masterpieces-from-the-court-of-the-Sun-King-9268-3.aspx?PID=mslp_related_features1
Clara Serena Rubens — a recently re-attributed portrait by Sir Peter Paul Rubens
https://www.christies.com/features/One-of-the-most-intimate-portraits-Rubens-painted-of-a-family-member-9164-3.aspx?PID=mslp_related_features3
‘The Shakespeare of English furniture makers’
https://www.christies.com/features/A-guide-to-Thomas-Chippendale-Senior-8823-1.aspx?PID=mslp_related_features4
The culmination of an obsession: Rembrandt’s Ecce Homo
https://www.christies.com/features/Rembrandt-Ecce-Homo-the-summit-of-western-printmaking-tradition-9260-1.aspx?PID=mslp_related_features8
Special Publications: Rembrandt, Christ Presented to the People ‘Ecce Homo’
https://www.christies.com/zmags?ZmagsPublishID=71a639e7&PID=mslp_related_features13
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