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 i.; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), ix. 282; (1872), vi. 446; Jal, 862.

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.