Philip, Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, c1715-1746. Artist: Nicolas de Largilliere

Philip, Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, c1715-1746. Artist: Nicolas de Largilliere

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Philip, Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, 1715-1746. Philip (1674-1723) ruled France as Regent from 1715 during the minority of Louis XV. Here he is portrayed as Bacchus, the Roman god of wine (Dionysus in the Greek pantheon) beside a statue of Silenus, drunken attendant and nurse to Bacchus.

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