Portrait of three-year-old boy. Bust, face right. Wearing silk colt with lace collar. Wears a blue silk ribbon across the chest and two orders: the crass and ribbon of the order of saints (l'ordre de saint-esprit) and the order of st. Louis in red ribbon (l'ordre de saint-louis). Background monochrome. In connection with his visit to paris in 1784, king gustav iii commissioned the famous portrait of queen marie-antoinette walking with her children in the trianon park. Before working on this large painting, marie-antoinette and the children sat as models for wertmüller. The queen and princess were portrayed in the petit trianon while the queen, according to wertmüller's autobiography, "ordered me to paint his k: highness le dauphin at la muette" (the residence of the french crown prince near paris). Bronzed original frame with decoration of the french lily. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1784. Place of creation: Paris. Dimensions: height: 46.5 cm (18.3 in); width: 38 cm (14.9 in). Medium: oil on canvas, panel. Depicted People: Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France. Collection: Nationalmuseum. Crownprince, Le Dauphin, Louis-Joseph-Xavier-François of France (1781-1789) - Nationalmuseum - 132462
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