Lot Essay
This figure has often been identified as Louis XIV. Compare the very similar figure in the Copeland Collection illustrated by W. R. Sargent, op.cit., no.48; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by J. Ayers, op.cit., pl.60; the Mottahedeh example is illustrated by D. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., vol.II, p.581, fig.601b; another is illustrated by M. Beurdeley, op.cit., p.103, fig.74; and another by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op.cit., fig.334.