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Nicolas Mignard

?–1668

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Nicolas Mignard, also known as Mignard d'Avignon, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits. He spent most of his active life in Avignon creating religious and mythological paintings for religious institutions and stately homes but ended his career as court painter in Paris.

Source: Wikidata · Trust score: 85% · Updated 19d ago

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Artworks (17)

Presumed portrait of Françoise de Sévigné

1700 · oil paint

Portrait of the Comtesse de La Fayette (Marie-Madeleine Pioche De la Vergne)

1664 · oil paint

Portrait of Louis XIV in Armour

1663 · oil paint

Portrait of Lady Mary Whitmore

1660 · oil paint

Portrait of Helena Tekla Lubomirska née Ossolińska as Flora.

1660 · oil paint

The Shepherd Faustulus Bringing Romulus and Remus to His Wife

1654 · oil paint

Self-portrait

1650 · oil paint

Portrait of Nicolas Mignard (1606-1668)

1644 · Graphite, red chalk, pen and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache; framing lines in pen and black ink

sheet: 15 3/8 x 10 13/16 in. (39 x 27.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study for a Robed Male Saint

1644 · Red chalk, heightened with lead white (discolored), with graphite, on cream laid paper

42.3 × 27.5 cm (16 11/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Assumption of Mary

1643 · canvas

Studies for the Archangel Gabriel (recto and verso)

1640 · Red and black chalk, over graphite, on light brown paper (verso, same media)

16 1/2 x 10 3/8 in. (41.9 x 26.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Christ's arrival at Bethany

1640 · canvas

Study for the Archangel Gabriel

1615 · Red chalk and graphite, heightened with white chalk

13 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (33.7 x 24.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Midas, King of Phrygia

Saint Barbara and Saint Marguerite adoring the Blessed Sacrament

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17 published of 17 catalogued · 17 with image

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The Met
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Art Institute Chicago
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Venus and Adonis
1650 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Portrait of Nicolas Mignard (1606-1668)
1650 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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The Shepherd Faustulus Bringing Romulus and Remus to His Wife
1654 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Portrait of Helena Tekla Lubomirska née Ossolińska as Flora.
1660 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Assumption of Mary
1643 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Self-portrait
1650 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Christ's arrival at Bethany
1640 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Presumed portrait of Françoise de Sévigné
1700 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Portrait of the Comtesse de La Fayette (Marie-Madeleine Pioche De la Vergne)
1664 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Portrait of Lady Mary Whitmore
1660 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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