Don Pedro of Toledo Kissing Henry IV's Sword

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Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Similar The Dauphin's Entry Into, Portrait of a Young Man, Portrait Belvèze, Portrait of Lorenzo Bartolini, Comte Louis‑Mathieu Molé

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 artist painted four versions of the subject between 1814 and 1832:

1814 - exhibited at the Paris Salon that year but now lost.

1819 - now at the château de Pau, very close to the original, displayed in the 2014 L'invention du Passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée 1802–1850 exhibition at the musée des beaux-arts de Lyon.

1820 - previously in a private collection in Oslo, recently acquired for the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

1831 - now in the Louvre Museum, which it entered in 1981.

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