Nicolas Gosse, Louis XI at the Feet of Francis di Paola
1843
Oil on canvas
Musée Anne de Beaujeu, Moulins, France
Francis successfully exhorts the dying king to repentance. The boy in blue is the 13-year-old Dauphin, the future Charles VIII. The woman holding Louis's shoulders is Anne of France, who was to serve as regent. Her portrait is modeled on a detail in the contemporary Moulins Triptych.
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Source: Sergey Prokopenko via this page at Wikimedia Commons.