17TH CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL, FOLLOWER OF RENÉ-ANTOINE HOUASSE PORTRAIT OF LOUIS XIV ON HORSEBACK Canvas mounted on panel Old restorations 17TH CENTURY French school, foll. of R. A. Houasse, portrait of Louis XIV on horseback, canvas mounted on panel, with restorations 116 x 89 CM - 45,7 x 35 IN. PROVENANCE Carlos de Bestegui Collection, Paris; Sale Château de Groussay. Second floor, follies and festivals, stables, cellars and attics, Château de Groussay, Poulain Le Fur and Sotheby's, 4-6 June 1999, no. 1446 (follower of Houasse, 20th century). BIBLIOGRAPHY M. Lett, René-Antoine Houasse. Peindre pour Louis XIV, Paris, 2020, cited under no. 78, p. 239. This is a variant version (the king's face is shown in profile) of the Portrait de Louis XIV painted around 1674, now in the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon.