Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu is an oil on canvas painting by Philippe de Champaigne, from c. 1635-1640. It is one of the 21 portraits he produced of cardinal de Richelieu. Probably originally meant for the hôtel de Toulouse, it passed through the collections of Louis II Phélypeaux de La Vrillière Base Joconde entry then Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (1725-1793) and was seized with the rest of the latter's collection at the château d'Anet by the republican French state in 1793, Base Collections before being placed in the Louvre five years later, where it still hangs.
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