Editing Hyacinthe Rigaud (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Jean-Baptiste Monginot.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of Jean-Baptiste de Montginot (1688)]]
Rigaud's works today populate the world's major museums. The exact number of paintings he produced remains in dispute, since he left a highly detailed catalogue but also more than a thousand different models which specialists agree he used.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.mediterranees.net/art_roussillon/rigaud/clientele1.html Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait d'une clientèle]</ref> To these may be added the large number of copies in Rigaud's [[s:fr:Le Livre de Raison du peintre Hyacinthe Rigaud|book of accounts]], as well as the hundreds of other paintings rediscovered since the account's publication in 1919. Rigaud painted many important figures in the world of art such as the sculptors [[Martin Desjardins|Desjardins]] (to whom, as an old friend, he delivered three successive portraits), [[François Girardon|Girardon]] and [[Antoine Coysevox|Coysevox]]; the painters [[Joseph Parrocel]], [[Charles de La Fosse|La Fosse]] and [[Pierre Mignard|Mignard]]; the architects [[Robert de Cotte|De Cotte]], [[Jules Hardouin Mansart|Hardouin-Mansart]] and [[Jacques Gabriel|Gabriel]]. He also painted portraits of poets such as [[Jean de La Fontaine|La Fontaine]] or [[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux|Boileau]], as well as religious figures such as the [[André-Hercule de Fleury|cardinal de Fleury]] and [[Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet|Bossuet]]; many influential archbishops and bishops paid large sums of money for a portrait.

The {{Interlanguage link|Musée Hyacinthe-Rigaud|lt=Musée d'art Hyacinthe Rigaud|fr|}}, a museum dedicated to Rigaud's artwork, opened in Perpignan in 1833.<ref>{{Cite web |title=L'histoire du musée |url=https://www.musee-rigaud.fr/musee/le-musee-dhier/histoire-du-musee |access-date=26 July 2023 |website=musee-rigaud.fr |language=French}}</ref> The museum has since expanded to include works by [[Aristide Maillol]], [[Raoul Dufy]], and other artists.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Les collections |url=https://www.musee-rigaud.fr/musee/le-musee-daujourdhui/les-collections |access-date=26 July 2023 |website=musee-rigaud.fr |language=French}}</ref> It received over 65,000 visitors in 2017 following its renovation and a temporary exhibition dedicated to [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Torres |first=Maite |date=3 November 2017 |title=Musée Rigaud – 65.000 visiteurs depuis l'ouverture – «Une très belle surprise» |language=French |work=Made In Perpignan |url=https://madeinperpignan.com/musee-rigaud-65-000-visiteurs-depuis-louverture-une-tres-belle-surprise/#:~:text=tr%C3%A8s%20belle%20surprise%20%C2%BB-,Mus%C3%A9e%20Rigaud%20%E2%80%93%2065.000%20visiteurs%20depuis%20l'ouverture,%E2%80%93%20%C2%AB%20Une%20tr%C3%A8s%20belle%20surprise%20%C2%BB |access-date=26 July 2023}}</ref>