Painting ID:: 77314
Portrait of Mariana Victoria of Spain fiancee of Louis XV ca. 1723(1723)
Oil on canvas
98 ?? 109 cm (38.6 ?? 42.9 in)
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Alexis Simon Belle (12 January 1674 - 21 November 1734) was a French portrait painter, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility.
Belle was born in Paris, the second child and only son of Jean-Baptiste Belle (born before 1642, died 1703), also a painter, and of Anne his wife (died 1705).
Belle's birth and baptism are recorded in the parish register of the church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, and quoted in Eugene Piot's Le Cabinet de l'amateur for the years 1861 and 1862
Portrait of Mariana Victoria of Spain fiancee of Louis XV ca. 1723(1723)
Oil on canvas
98 ?? 109 cm (38.6 ?? 42.9 in)
cjr