hellooo..! hiii

ive created a tumblr community for fans of all things court of philippe i d'orléans, court of louis xiv, versailles, monchevy, etc! you can find it here if you're interested:

the armour portrait (and engravings after it) were posthumous, as are all other engravings.

we currently have no way of verifying who the sitter for the ganymede portrait is (after doing some digging, it’s unlikely to be lorraine if the attribution of the painter is correct; the artist to whom the painting is attributed, baldassarre francheschini, was not in rome at the same time lorraine was). i suspect that the fine arts museums of san francisco doesn't identify the sitter in the ganymede portrait precisely bc there is significant doubt that it's lorraine.

the blond miniature on the snuffbox was proposed to depict lorraine by some rando on pinterest but there’s no evidence to back up that attribution, and sotheby’s lists it simply as “portrait of a gentleman.”

an auction site listed a portrait that they claimed was lorraine, but as far as i can tell that’s based not on any information on the painting but on physical resemblance to the man in the ganymede portrait, which may not depict lorraine itself.

plus all of these portraits bear little physical resemblance to each other (excepting engravings after the armour portrait).

Yet another (very cartoonish, I must admit) adaptation of an anecdote I found very funny in Chev's bio, namely:

The duke of Lorraine, Charles IV, was going to make Louis XIV his heir, thus joining the Lorraine clan to the royal family and making all of its members "princes of France". Philippe de Lorraine and his older brother were very stoked, because it would add sensible prestige to their name, unlike Philippe d'Orléans who wasn't happy at all at the idea of their family becoming too large. This was a few years before he and chev got together, and for a while Chev and his brothers liked to keep joking about being his cousins to annoy him.

FR below the cut!

I'M BACK

But with something different 👉👈I've been losing my mind about Monsieur, Philippe d'Orléans (brother of king Louis XIV) recently and don't know what to do with all that energy, felt like I need to share it somewhere, but don't feel like starting a new space all over like I did with my previous hyperfixation. (IDK why, I like fandoms neatly separate and organized, but I need to make some changes in my life, anyway--)