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Madame de Maintenon 1670 workshop

SOLD ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 17° secolo -1600 Caudroit Style: Luigi XIV Reggenza +33662098900

Length:68cm Width:58cm Material:olio su tela Price:4200€

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French School of the seventeenth century workshop of Pierre Mignard (1612-1695) Portrait of Madame de Maintenon 1670, represented by a widow, she mourns her husband Scarron and at that time she was in charge of the children of King Louis XIV. Oil on canvas 49 cm by 39 cm blackened wooden frame of 68 cm by 58 cm Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719) French aristocrat and secret wife of Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon leaves the image of a wise and mysterious woman which would have had a great influence on the king. Granddaughter of the Protestant poet Agrippa d'Aubigné. High in the Calvinist faith, she saw a turbulent childhood of six years in Martinique. On the death of her father, she is taken in by her godmother, Madame de Neuillant, which immediately converts to Catholicism (1649). At the age of sixteen, the girl was forced to marry Paul Scarron, a disabled poet 25 years her senior. Through this union, she rubs the intellectuals of the time, such as Madame de Sevigne and Madame de La Fayette. Left penniless after the death of Scarron in 1660, she was noticed by Madame de Montespan, mistress of King Louis XIV. Thus it is appointed governess of the children of the couple since 1669. wise and pious woman who does not lack spirit, it will eventually seduce the king, who appoints the Marquise de Maintenon. Lover since 1679, the couple married in secret after the death of Queen Maria Theresa, in 1683. Madame de Maintenon, discreet queen but the moral unwavering, would have had a great influence on the king. Some historians wonder even the role that it played in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. After the death of Louis XIV, in 1715, she retired to Saint-Cyr, where she established a school for girl in 1686. Madame de Maintenon remained there until his death in 1719. Pierre Mignard (1612-1695 ) between Pierre Mignard in 1624 in the studio of painter Jean Boucher in Bourges. Back in Troyes, he worked with a sculptor named François Gentil before leaving for Fontainebleau - capital of the arts of the time - where he studied Primaticcio, Rosso Fiorentino and Martin Fréminet. In 1635 he moved to where he met , perhaps the painter Sassoferrato Avolara and Anna, daughter of an architect, he falls in love but not married in 1660 to the following obstacles various. Became famous in Rome, he is naturally recalled to by Louis XIV in 1657. On the

1 / 3 anticSwiss 05/10/2021 01:29:33 http://www.anticswiss.com way to , he met Molière in with his brother Nicolas. Mignard divided his career between the portrait especially from the aristocratic society of the kingdom and the great decorative compositions. He painted including the . In June 1687 he was knighted by the king in 1690 on the death of appoints his first painter, actually the director of royal manufactures and brings to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture at the post director. We owe him the portraits of Bossuet, Jacques de cord Evieu, the Princess Palatine, Duchess of Châtillon, Countess of Fiesco, Julie Angennes, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, Mademoiselle de Valois and Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Madame de la Sabliere, the Duchess of Brissac, the Duchess of Ventadour, Madame de Montespan, of Mademoiselle de la Valliere, Madame de Sevigne, Mademoiselle de Grignan, Miss Fontanges and Madame de Tencin. He also painted ten times Louis XIV. https://www.anticswiss.com/en/fine-art-antiques/madame-de-maintenon-1670-workshop-pierre-mignard-4456

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