Detail from the painting "Louis XV giving peace to Europe".
Oil on canvas.
85 x 70 cm.
Accidents, cracks, restorations, important gap in the center and small missing parts.
Gilded wooden frame with rounded corners and velvet border.
In the original oval painting, commissioned in 1729, located above the fireplace of the Salon de la Paix of the Chateau de Versailles, the young sovereign, aged nineteen, holds out an olive branch and receives his twin daughters, Louise-Elizabeth and Anne-Henriette, from the hands of the Fertility and Piety. In the background, Discord is vainly trying to reopen the doors of the Janus temple.
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