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So-called portrait of Madame de Montespan as Diana  wikidata:Q122233646 reasonator:Q122233646
Artist
Attributed to Pierre Mignard I  (1612–1695)  wikidata:Q360010
 
Attributed to Pierre Mignard I
Alternative names
Mignard le Romain
Description French painter, miniaturist and muralist
brother of Nicolas Mignard
Date of birth/death 17 November 1612 Edit this at Wikidata 30 May 1695 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Troyes Paris
Work location
Fontainebleau, Troyes (....-1636), Italy (1636-1656), Rome, Avignon (1657), Paris (1657-1695)
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creator QS:P170,Q360010,P5102,Q230768
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Title
"Madame de Montespan (1640-1707) as Diana"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: So-called Portrait of Madame de Montespan (1640-1707), but it’s probably a depiction of Marie Anne de Bourbon (1666-1739), daughter of Louis XIV of France and Louise de La Vallière
  • Identification made by Ecummenic based on the comparison with some portraits of that princess (see images below)
Lot Essay

"The present lot is attributed to Pierre Mignard, a prominent court painter during the reign of Louis XIV, in the fine art catalogues of the Althorp House collection published in 1851 and 1974, and is almost certainly the same painting described by Kenneth J. Garlick in his inventory, which describes the subject, Madame de Montespan, as follows:

"Dressed as a huntress, she proceeds towards the left, with her hounds, across a landscape. Cupids attend her, and others, at the right, are whetting arrows on anvil and grindstone, near which is an inscription: SEMPER ARDENTES ACVENS SAGITTAS CÔTE CRVENTA ('For ever whetting burning arrows on the cruel grindstone.') It is inscribed in a later hand: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan, par Mignard. Canvas: 45 x 58 in. (enlarged from an oval)." [...]

The Althorp estate in Northampton, England is the official seat of the aristocratic Spencer family, which was purchased by Sir John Spencer in 1508. Over the course of the ensuing centuries, the Spencer family amassed a large collection of art, furniture and objets d'art. Althorp House was the childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales, and her brother Charles Spencer, 9th Earl of Spencer, is the current owner.

Literature: Catalogue of Paintings at Althorp House, in the County of Northampton, with Occasional Notices, Biographical or Historical, London, 1851, p. 77, no. 309 Garlick, K. J. "A Catalogue of Pictures at Althorp." The Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 45, 1974, pp. 58-59, no. 454 (309)" [1]

Date between 1675 and 1700
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1675-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions 46 3/8 x 63 1/2 inches
Object history

Provenance:

  • Althorp House, Northampton, England
  • Clifford Ellison, Northampton, England, acquired directly from the above, 1986 (with image of invoice)
  • Auction: Hindman, Sale 940, 19-20 October 2021, lot 110 [2]
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Source/Photographer https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Madame-de-Montespan--1640-1707--as-Diana/E6B7DBBE09202CC2
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