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DESCRIPTION:Painter and sculptor Antoine Benoist is best known for a profil
 e relief portrait of Louis XIV in polychrome wax. The striking verisimilit
 ude of this work and his other wax creations readily evoke the popular wax
  statues at Madame Tussauds. In this lecture\, Charles Kang\, curator at t
 he Rijksmuseum Amsterdam\, explores the outer limits of royal portraiture 
 at the time of Louis XIV\, beyond oil paintings\, marble busts\, bronze st
 atues\, and medals. Kang also looks at two other works that Benoist produc
 ed towards the end of his career: a group of grisaille miniature portraits
  in elaborate gilt bronze frames and a manuscript biography of Louis XIV d
 ecorated with similar miniatures in gouache. Through these works\, Benoist
  attempted to reposition himself as a chronicler of royal likeness rather 
 than as a wax portraitist.Charles Kang is Curator of Eighteenth- and Ninet
 eenth-Century Drawings at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Responsible for the m
 useum’s collection of Dutch and European drawings\, he is currently workin
 g on several projects\, including one on the rise of private drawing socie
 ties in the Netherlands and another on the relationship between artistic d
 rawing and early ethnography. He trained in eighteenth-century French art 
 and visual culture and holds a PhD from Columbia University and an MA from
  Williams College in the history of art.Bard Graduate Center is grateful f
 or the generous support of the Selz Foundation.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: From Wax to Paper: Antoine Benoist's Portrait
 s of Louis XIV
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