# Louis XIII as a Child [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POURBUS, Frans the Younger]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 159 x 95 cm ## Commentary Although ten-year-old Louis XIII was king of France, his mother Marie de' Medici remained in power until the boy officially came of age. Pourbus inscribed the sitter's age and the painting's year in the composition: "The holy year 1611 at his age of 10 years." Marie de' Medici commissioned this work as she negotiated marriages for her two children to Philip III of Spain and Mary Marguerite of Austria, alliances that led to the European domination of the next two centuries by the Bourbon and Habsburg families. ## Related artworks - [An Unknown Spanish Noblewoman]() - [Archdukes Albert and Isabella]() - [Elisabeth of France, Queen of Spain]() - [Elisabeth of France]() - [Elisabeth of France]() - [Henri IV]() - [Henry IV, King of France in Armour]() - [Henry IV, King of France in Black Dress]() - [Isabella Clara Eugenia of Austria]() - [Margherita Gonzaga, Princess of Mantua]() - [Marie de Médicis, Queen of France]() - [Marie de Médicis, Queen of France]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()