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Hyacinthe Rigaud

1659 - 1743

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Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒəˈsin riˈɣaw ˈrɔz i ˈsɛrə]; 18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743), known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud (pronounced [jasɛ̃t ʁiɡo]), was a Catalan-French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hyacinthe Rigaud is the 217th most popular painter (down from 109th in 2019), the 733rd most popular biography from France (down from 323rd in 2019) and the 57th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Hyacinthe Rigaud ranks 217 out of 2,023. Before him are Francesco Guardi, Joaquín Sorolla, Georgia O'Keeffe, Dieric Bouts, Luca Giordano, and Carl Bloch. After him are Jan Gossaert, Nicholas Roerich, Andrea del Castagno, Antonio del Pollaiolo, Francesco Hayez, and Piero di Cosimo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1659, Hyacinthe Rigaud ranks 3. Before him are Henry Purcell, and Jacob Roggeveen. After him are Georg Ernst Stahl, Henry Every, Royal Noble Consort Huibin Jang, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Sebastiano Ricci, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Pieter van der Aa, Adriaen van der Werff, and Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. Among people deceased in 1743, Hyacinthe Rigaud ranks 1. After him are André-Hercule de Fleury, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, Anne Sophie Reventlow, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Nicolas Lancret, Rafael Casanova, Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz, Augustine Washington, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, and Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hyacinthe Rigaud ranks 733 out of 6,770. Before him are René Coty (1882), Édouard Stephan (1837), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), Michèle Mercier (1939), Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768), and Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922). After him are François Guizot (1787), Félix Faure (1841), Jan Gossaert (1478), Michel Barnier (1951), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), and Léon Bourgeois (1851).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Hyacinthe Rigaud ranks 57. Before him are Suzanne Valadon (1865), Aristide Maillol (1861), Maurice Utrillo (1883), Eugène Boudin (1824), Francis Picabia (1879), and Charles-François Daubigny (1817). After him are Jan Gossaert (1478), Raoul Dufy (1877), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824), Simon Vouet (1590), Alexandre Cabanel (1823), and Antoine-Jean Gros (1771).

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