# Louis XIV [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PUGET, Pierre]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Marble medallion, diameter: 66 cm ## Commentary Louis XIV c. 1688 Marble medallion, diameter: 66 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille Puget worked on a portrait of the king since 1659. This medallion is related to the activities in the second half of the 1680s connected with the equestrian statue intended by the City of Marseille to erect on Place Royale. This medallion is clearly influenced by Antoine Coysevox's bust of Louis XIV ordered in 1679. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro Sauli]() - [Arm]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Atlas from the door of the Hôtel de Ville at Toulon]() - [Blessed Alessandro Sauli]() - [Bust of Marcus Aurelius]() - [Bust of Young August]() - [Christ Dying on the Cross]() - [Door of the Hôtel de Ville at Toulon]() - [Door of the Hôtel de Ville at Toulon]() - [Door of the Hôtel de Ville at Toulon]() - [Exterior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()