Don Pedro of Toledo Kissing Henry IV's Sword
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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,[1] 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,[2] recently acquired for the Louvre Abu Dhabi.[3]
- 1831 - now in the Louvre Museum, which it entered in 1981.
