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Don Pedro of Toledo Kissing Henry IV's Sword
Don Pedro of Toledo Kissing Henry IV's Sword is an 1814 painting in the Troubador style by the French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, showing the Spanish ambassador Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, 5th Marquis of Villafranca kissing the sword of Henry IV of France (held by a young page) in the salle des Caryatides of the Louvre palace. The painting is now lost. Between 1819 and 1832, Ingres painted three additional paintings of the subject.
History.
, he proposed without having met her, and she accepted. Their marriage was happy; Madame Ingres's faith was unwavering. He continued to suffer disparaging reviews, as "Don Pedro of Toledo Kissing Henry IV's Sword", "Raphael and the Fornarina" (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University), several portraits, and the "Interior of the Sistine Chapel" met with generally hostile critical response at the Paris Salon of 1814.
Rome after the Academy and Florence (1814–1824).
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