# Prince Charles Louis with His Tutor, as Alexander Instructed by Aristotle [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LIEVENS, Jan]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 104 x 97 cm ## Commentary Prince Charles Louis with His Tutor, as Alexander Instructed by Aristotle 1631 Oil on canvas, 104 x 97 cm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles This painting is a 'portrait historié' with contemporary sitters in the role of biblical or historical figures. The young man in his rich dress is most probably the palatine Prince Charles Louis \(1617-1680\), the eldest surviving son of the Winter King and Winter Queen, whereas the older man is his tutor Wolrad von Plessen \(1560-1632\), and they are represented as Alexander the Great and Aristotle. The portrait historié was rather popular at the Palatine court in exile. They are very often just likenesses of contemporary people dressed to represent biblical or historical persons, but Lievens succeeded in representing the young prince and his tutor as actors who are playing the roles of Alexander and Aristotle in perfection. ## Related artworks - [A Tronie]() - [Bearded Old Man with a Brown Cloak]() - [Bust of a Young Girl]() - [Head of an Old Man]() - [Jacob Receiving the Bloody Tunic of Joseph]() - [Old Man in Oriental Garb]() - [Pilate Washing his Hands]() - [Portrait of an Old Man]() - [Portrait of Ephraim Bueno]() - [Portrait of Petrus Egidius de Morrion]() - [Portrait of Poet Jan Vos]() - [Rembrandt van Rijn with Gorget]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()