Monument to Louis XV, Pl. 26 — Nouvelle Iconologie Historique

A grandiose allegorical monument to Louis XV, encrusted with martial trophies, royal emblems, and personifications of his reign.

Plate 26. Designed and engraved by Jean-Charles Delafosse. From Nouvelle Iconologie Historique ou Attributs Hieroglyphiques. Published in Paris by Jean-François Daumont, c. 1770.

Delafosse's monument plates supplied templates for festival architecture, funerary catafalques, and commemorative sculpture. This homage to the Bien-Aimé belongs to a wave of late-reign panegyrics that translated absolutist propaganda into the disciplined classical vocabulary of the goût grec.

Hand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 47.2 × 33.9 cm. Very Good.