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# Louis XV and a scene after the battle in Horace Vernet’s “Battle of Fontenoy”
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/obozhaiu-etot-fragment-bitvy-pri-fontenua-khudozhnika-i-diplomata-populiarizatora-batalnoi-zhivopisi-orasa-verne/
- Published: 2020-06-26T08:46:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:08:49.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Monarchies, Observations

I adore this detail from The Battle of Fontenoy by Horace Vernet, painter, diplomat and popularizer of battle painting. It is generally held that the scene shows a father kissing his son after the battle. Though perhaps it is not a father at all. The young man, incidentally, holds in his hands the Order of Saint Louis on its red ribbon, a royal decoration. Louis XV himself is also captured on the canvas, a little nearer the centre, on horseback, accompanied by the Dauphin, a marshal and the Duke of Richelieu, bareheaded. Fontenoy is the very battle after which Louis XV is said to have told the Dauphin Louis Ferdinand: this is what triumph costs, the blood of enemies is still the blood of men, and only their salvation is true glory.