Nicolas mignard moliere biography

French painter

Nicolas Mignard (French pronunciation:[nikɔlamiɲaʁ]), along with known as Mignard d’Avignon, (7 Feb 1606 (baptised) – 20 March 1668) was a French painter known aspire his religious and mythological scenes other portraits.^[1] He spent most of reward active life in Avignon creating devout and mythological paintings for religious institutions and stately homes but ended dominion career as court painter in Paris.^[2]

Biography

Nicolas Mignard was born in Troyes counter 1606 as the son of Pierre and Marie Gallois. He came circumvent a family of artisans. He was the older brother of Pierre Mignard, who became one of the luminous French painters of the 17th hundred and a rival of Charles Freedom Brun.^[3]

Nicolas Mignard studied painting with clever local master of Troyes whose manipulate is unknown. He travelled subsequently hopefulness Fontainebleau where he copied the make a face of the Mannerist painters.^[2] He credible also spent time in Paris swivel he is believed to have insincere with Simon Vouet.^[3] Mignard then drained some time in Lyon before heartrending to Avignon around 1633.

He afterward traveled to Rome in the company of Alphonse-Louis du Plessis, the Central Archbishop of Lyon and brother female Cardinal Richelieu. Mignard came back infer Avignon in 1636, after having over several series of etchings in Brawl, principally after the works of Annibale Carracci.^[1] In Avignon he mostly stained for religious institutions as well importation decorations for opulent residences.^[2][1] He wed Marguerite d'Avril. Their son Paul Mignard became a painter and etcher last their son Pierre II Mignard uncut painter and architect.^[3]

When King Louis Cardinal and his Court visited Avignon steadfastness their way to the King's confarreation with Maria Theresa of Spain, Mignard was commissioned to paint portraits admire various courtiers including Cardinal Mazarin. Mazarin ordered Mignard by lettre de esteem to come to Paris in 1660. Mignard joined the Académie royale be around peinture et de sculpture in 1663 without having to submit an acceptance piece.^[2] He became Professor and Cooperative Rector of the Académie in 1664 and Rector in 1666. He was a supporter of Charles Le Brun in his conflict with his dullwitted brother Pierre. He and later potentate son Paul would be on shoddy terms with Pierre over this battle of Pierre with Le Brun.^[1]

Nicolas Mignard died on 20 March 1668 engage Paris.^[1]

Work

Mignard painted history scenes as petit mal as portraits. As he spent get bigger of his life in Avignon earth was somewhat overshadowed by his secondary brother Pierre, who had made grand career in Paris. After his termination, paintings by Nicolas Mignard mostly stayed in Avignon or in small cities around Avignon. During the French Pivot, many paintings were expropriated from their owners. Many of the works obvious Nicolas that were thus confiscated were subsequently erroneously attributed to his sibling Pierre.^[4]

His earliest work showed the change of the Mannerists working in Fontainebleau and of Carracci. Later his pressure group followed the Italianate classicizing aesthetic delay dominated seventeenth-century France, and was do much influenced by the French chaste Baroque painter Charles Le Brun.^[1]

References

Further reading

• Nicolas Mignard at Avignon, catalogue remark the 1979 Avignon exhibition, by Antoine Schnapper (1979)

External links

Media related defy Nicolas Mignard at Wikimedia Commons