Antique 19th c. French Portrait Miniature after Aprés Hiacynth RIGAUD, Louis XIV or ?
There are 2 types of portrait miniatures, as I've mentioned before: first being the one of a kind original of a living person who sat for their portrait with the artist. The 2nd being those miniatures "après" or painted after the work of an earlier work of art, a famous artist's painting and done for a souvenir of the famed Grand Tour. These 2nd variety often have a signature denoting the original work's artist, which is the case in this miniature. Hiacynth Rigaud was a master regal portraitist in the era of French King Louis XIV, (see reference paintings toward the last of our added photos), and he created incredible masterpieces of many Royals, leaders, notables in his long career Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra (18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743), known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud. This painting was noted to be King Louis XIV in his later years, but I am uncertain if it was Louis XIV, or perhaps a painting adapted a bit from another Rigaud portrait, as a lot of his regal portraits are pose