i.; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), ix. 282; (1872), vi. 446; Jal, 862.
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MIGNARD, PIERRE, the elder, born at
Troyes, Nov. 7,
1612 (1610?),
died in Paris,
May 30, 1695.
French school;
portrait and allegory
painter,
brother of the
preceding, pupil
of Jean Boucher
of Bourges,
and of Vouet. In 1635 he went to Rome,
where he painted the portraits of Urban
VIII. and of Alexander VII., and many other
works, including frescos in churches. In
1658 he was recalled by the king to Fontainebleau,
where he became the rival of Le
Brun, to whose honours he succeeded. He
was court painter, director of the Gobelins,
and was elected on the same day member,
rector, chancellor, and director of the Academy.
Works: Madonna of the Grapes,
Procession to Calvary (1684), Ecce Homo,
Virgin in Tears, St. Luke painting the Virgin
(1685), St. Cecilia (1691), Faith (1692),
Hope (1692), Neptune offering his Wealth
to France, The Grand Dauphin and his
Family, Portrait of Mme. de Maintenon,
Portrait of himself, Louvre; Bacchus with
a River and a Naiad, Amiens Museum; Madonna
with St. John Baptist, Portrait of
Madame de Sévigné, Angers Museum; Children
caressing a Lamb, a copy of Guido's
Magdalen, two portraits, Avignon Museum;
Spring-Time, Autumn, Lady of the Court,
Besançon Museum; Portrait of Louis XIV.,
Unknown portrait, Bordeaux Museum; Portraits
of himself and of an unknown painter,
Dijon Museum; Ecce Homo, Douai
Museum; Pastorale, Grenoble Museum;
Fortune, an Allegory, The Virgin, Judgment
of Midas, Lille Museum; Portrait of
Ninon de l'Enclos, two other Female portraits,
Marseilles Museum; Marshal Villars
in his Youth, Metz Museum; Madonna,
Female portraits (2), Nancy Museum; Portrait
of a Magistrate, Nîmes Museum; Artist's
Daughter, Orléans Museum; Holy
Family, Rouen Museum; Christ, Three Allegorical
Figures, Toulouse Museum; Diana
Resting, Brussels Museum; Jephthah's Return,
Alexander and Darius's Family, Death
of Cleopatra, Portrait of his Daughter, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg; Portrait of Marie
Mancini, Berlin Museum; Louis XIV. as
Endymion with his Mistresses, Darmstadt
Museum; Madonna, Old Pinakothek, Munich;
Portrait of himself, Portraits of Elector
Ferdinand, his Wife, and Daughter,
Schleissheim Gallery; Madonna, Holy Family,
Stuttgart Museum; St. Anthony the
Hermit, Vienna Museum; Equestrian portrait
of Louis XIV., The Dauphin, Son of
Louis XIV., Turin Gallery; Ladies' portraits
(2), Uffizi, Florence; St. John in the
Desert, four portraits, Madrid Museum;
Madonna (?), Barcelona Museum; Portrait
of Louis XIV., Hampton Court Palace;
Holy Family, Lady at Toilet, Historical Society,
New York.—Archives de l'art français,
documents, i. 329; Argenville, v. 74;
Bellier, ii. 91; Ch. Blanc, École française,
i.; Cat. du Louvre; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861),
ix. 282; (1872); v. 242; vi. 446; Jal, 861;
Keane, Early Masters, 527; Mémoires inédits,
ii. 86; Monville, La vie de P. M. (Paris,
1730); Stothert, 97.
MIGNON, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, William
Astor, New York. Subject from Goethe's
"Wilhelm Meister." Full-length, standing,
with her guitar in her arms, leaning against
a rock on the shore of the sea, across the
waters of which she is gazing with sad,
dreamy eyes. Another, W. H. Vanderbilt
Collection, New York.—L'Illustration (1878),
i. 394.
