2-702-498 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Ludwig XV', (1933). Portrait of Louis XV, King of France (1710-1774). In 1715, Louis succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. His reign of almost 59 years (until 1774) was the second-longest in the history of France. After a miniature of 1740. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]