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Portait of Hortense Mancini, countess Mazarin, born in Rome in 1646, deceased Chelsea, England in 1699, dressed in a brocade dress and coat. By her side putto with flowers. In the background the castle Mignon.
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Pierre Mignard was born in 1610 at Troyes, France. After studying under local masters from the early age of twelve, he was sent by the Marechal de Vitry, for whom he had decorated a chapel, to study in the studio of Vouet in Paris. In 1635 he visited Italy and Rome, where he was to spend almost twenty-two years of his life. He established himself as a portrait painter in that city and did likenesses of the three successive Popes, Urban VIII, Innocent X and Alexander VII. By 1657 he had achieved (showing 500 of 976 characters). |
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