In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
With his luxurious, flamboyant dress—a voluminous wrap of scarlet silk topped by a short fur cape—the subject of Hyacinthe Rigaud’s portrait was clearly a man of consequence. Guillaume Dubois gained the favor of Louis XIV as tutor to his nephew, Philippe Charles, Duke of Orléans, and served as chief minister under Louis’s successors, the regent Duke of Orléans and Louis’s great-grandson, Louis XV. Dubois was appointed a Cardinal in the Catholic Church in 1721, a lofty aspiration at least partly motivated by political ambition: the title gave him the ability to remove political adversaries with impunity. Dubois holds a letter with the words Au Roy (to the king); this portrait was painted in the same year the young Louis XV ascended to the throne.
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Pierre-Imbert Drevet (French, 1697–1739) — Cardinal Dubois
Landsberghs — Portrait of a Man from the Balguerie Family
Ferdinand Bol — Self-Portrait
Hyacinthe Rigaud — Charles de Saint-Albin, Archbishop of Cam
Portrait of a Man
Nicolas de Largillière (French, 1656–1746) — Portrait of Ann
Maurice Quentin de La Tour — Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de 
Portrait of Hendrick Wijnands (1601/02-1676)
Joseph Aved — Portrait of Marc de Villiers
Jan Verkolje (I) — Portrait of a Man
Carlo Ceresa — Bernardo Gritti, Proprefect of Bergamo
Caspar Netscher — Portret van een man
