Portrait Lives: King Louis XIV

I am going to start a new segment in this blog called Portrait Lives. I hope you like it because its pretty easy and quick to do when I'm busy. What I am going to do is show the aging of figures in history with portraits from their birth to their death. It's pretty interesting and fun.
The first one I will do is King Louis XIV (14th), a king of France who technically ruled from 1654-1715.
You know what? So you can get to know him, I'll just bullet some facts [3] about him.

• reduced the country's debt and improved fiscal issues, but that's just the good things
• As a person, he was easy to deal with and nice, but influenced in politics by the people around him
• had affairs with women though married (so look out ladies, he cheats!)

 Click on all images to enlarge

1. Louis XIV with Mother, aged abt. one

2.  aged abt. five

3.  aged 6 or 7 by Claude Mellan

Sorry about the age jump!

4. aged abt. 23 by Le Brun 

5.  aged abt. 26 by Nanteuil

6. aged abt. 27

7. aged abt. 33 by van Scheppun

8. aged abt. 46 by Kneller

9. aged  abt. 63 by Rigaud

10. aged abt. 77 

Look at http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/louis-xiv%C2%A0-1638-1715/1QF1q27ewIMNNg?projectId=art-project, it is a creepy real image of louis in his sixtes

Let me know what you think about this new segment in the comments!
Sources:
Wikipedia: King Louis XIV page
The Memoirs of the Court of King Louis XIV and the Regency by Elisabeth-Charlotte, Duchess d'Orleans:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3859/3859-h/3859-h.htm#link2H_SECT02