# Portrait of Philippe of France, Duke of Orléans [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MIGNARD, Pierre]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The sitter of this portrait is Philippe of France, Duke of Orléans \(1640-1701\), the younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria, brother of Louis XIV, bearing the cross of the Order of the Holy Spirit. During the reign of his brother he was known simply as Monsieur, the traditional style at the court of France for the younger brother of the king. He married twice fathering several children, thus founding the House of Orléans, a cadet branch of the ruling House of Bourbon. ## Related artworks - [Clio]() - [Equestrian Portrait of Louis XIV]() - [Girl Blowing Soap Bubbles]() - [God the Father]() - [Magnanimity of Alexander the Great]() - [Mystic Marriage of St Catherine]() - [Perseus and Andromeda]() - [Portrait of Edouard Colbert, Marquis de Villacerf]() - [Portrait of Françoise-Marguerite, Countess of Grignan]() - [Self-Portrait]() - [The Heavenly Glory]() - [The Marquise de Seignelay and Two of her Children]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()