Portrait of Louis XV (1710-1774), three-quarter-length, wearing a breastplate over an embroidered gold jacket, a royal baton in his right hand, a table with his crown and cloak nearby

The setting and the costume and pose of the King in the present composition derive from the lost full-length portrait of Louis XV (at a younger age) executed by Jean-Baptiste van Loo in 1747. Several copies after the original are known, including those in the Musée de Versailles and the Grand Trianon, Versailles. In the present work, however, the features of the King -- depicted here at a slightly older age than in van Loo's portrait -- are more closely related to Maurice-Quentin de la Tour's later pastel bust-length portrait of Louis (Cabinet des Dessins, Musée du Louvre, Paris).