In jean-antoine watteau's the signboard of gersaint, a portrait of louis xiv is shown being placed in a storage box, because louis

In Jean-Antoine Watteau's The Signboard of Gersaint, a portrait of LouisXIV is being placed in a storage box because Louis had recently had died.

Normally, the painting is interpreted as a commentary on the shift in aristocratic culture - or relief - that occurred during the government of the more licentious Régent Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1715-1723), after the death of Louis XIV and before the accession to the throne of Louis XV.