anticSwiss 30/09/2021 17:54:37 http://www.anticswiss.com Antique portrait of the French school of the seventeenth cen SOLD ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 17° secolo -1600 Laboratorio la Mole Torino Style: Luigi XIV Reggenza +39011 19 467 664 393357352986 Height:90cm Width:83cm Material:Olio su Tela Price:0€ DETAILED DESCRIPTION: Refined Portrait of a Noblewoman. The painting executed by an expert hand depicts one of the Mancini sisters, with precision it is Anna Maria (Marie) Mancini, known in the court of LUIGI XIV as the MAZARINETTES. The writing on the painting with the name MADAM DE LAMET (Du Lamet, mountain town of France), could be a form of discretion used by a lover or secret admirer who wished to possess the portrait of Anna Maria without creating an exact correspondence to the directly concerned. The pictorial technique places this painting in the Atelier of the master Jacob Ferdinand Voet, known as the portrait painter. The first canvas painting is accompanied by a coeval frame, carved and gilded with the leaf method. Maria Mancini was born on August 28, 1639 and grew up in Rome. His father was Baron Michele Lorenzo Mancini, an Italian aristocrat who was also a necromancer and astrologer, descended from a family originally from Tivoli. After her death in 1650, her mother, Geronima Mazarin, brought her and her sisters from Rome to Paris in hopes of using the influence of her brother, Cardinal Mazarin, and obtaining advantageous marriages for them. The other Mancini sisters were: • Laura (1636 - 1657), the eldest, who married Louis of Bourbon, duc de Vendôme, the nephew of King Henry IV and his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées, and became the mother of the famous French general Luigi Giuseppe, duc de Vendôme, • Olimpia (1638 - 1708), who married Eugenio Maurizio of Savoy, count of Soissons and became the mother of the famous Austrian general Eugenio of Savoy, • Ortensia (1646 - 1699), the family's beauty she escaped from her abusive husband, Armand-Charles de la Porte, duc de La Meilleraye, and went to London, where she became the mistress of King Charles II of England. • Maria Anna (1649 - 1714) married Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon, a nephew of the famous field marshal Turenne. The Mancinis were not the only female members of the family that Cardinal Mazarin brought to the French court. The others were Maria's first cousins, the daughters of Mazarin's older sister. The eldest, Laura Martinozzi, married Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena and was the mother of Maria Beatrice d'Este, second wife of James II of England. The youngest, Anna Maria Martinozzi, married Armando, Prince of Conti. Maria Mancini also had three brothers: Paul, Philippe, 1 / 3 anticSwiss 30/09/2021 17:54:37 http://www.anticswiss.com and Alphonse. In France, Anna Maria's name was Frenchized to Marie. "Brunette, lively and beautiful," Maria captured the greatest prize of the French court: the romantic love of Louis XIV. According to the biography of Antonia Fraser The loves of the Sun King, a horoscope predicts Mary's mother, Geronima, that Mary would be a source of concern and on her deathbed he asked Cardinal Mazarin to "lock Mary up forever in a convent. ". Maria did not consume her relationship with the Sun King. His love for her was something idealistic, but he was so infatuated that he wanted to marry her. Finally, Cardinal Mazarin and the young king's mother, Anna of Austria, separated the couple, removing Mary in exile and arranging for Louis to marry his cousin, Maria Teresa of Spain. https://www.anticswiss.com/en/fine-art-antiques/antique-portrait-of-the-french-school-of-the-seventeenth-cen-21256 2 / 3 anticSwiss 30/09/2021 17:54:37 http://www.anticswiss.com Gallery 3 / 3 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).