Dressed in the robes of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit.
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Louis XVI, by Alexander Roslin, 1782. |
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The comte de Provence, the future Louis XVIII, by Antoine-François Callet, 1788. (The crown and regalia must have been added after he became king.) |
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The comte d'Artois, the future Charles X, by Antoine-François Callet, 1779. |
And in their coronation robes; Louis XVIII chose to forgo a public coronation ceremony.
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Louis XVI, by Antoine-François Callet, 1779. |
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Louis XVIII, by Robert Lefèvre, circa 1822. |
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Charles X, by François Gérard, 1825. |
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And now for something a bit more realistic: a sketch for a coronation portrait of Louis XVIII by Antoine-François Callet, circa 1814 or later. |