Pair of portraits, oils on canvas, French school of the 17th century attributed to Pierre MIGNARD (1612-1695).
Dimensions: 40 X 32 CM Without frame and 53 X 46 CM
“Mademoiselle de Nantes”, Louise Françoise de Bourbon (1673-1743), legitimized daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.

“Mademoiselle de Blois known as the second”, Françoise-Marie de Bourbon (1677-11749), legitimized daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.
Mademoiselle de Nantes wears a pink silk dress embroidered with silver threads and lace wrapped in a black coat trimmed with gold threads. Her hairstyle at "La Fontange" is adorned with a necklace of fine pearls. She also wears pearl pendants in her ears. A royal bearing, a mischievous and quiet look, here is a portrait of Louise-Françoise de Bourbon worthy of a Queen.
Dressed in a bronze dress embroidered with gold thread and lace, Mademoiselle de Blois is painted in three-quarter view, her lively blue gaze remains very gentle. She wears a "Fontange" hairstyle with intertwined red silk ribbons. The painter offers us a portrait of great beauty and grace.
These two very beautiful portraits are presented in their gilded and carved wooden frame from the same period.
Pierre MIGNARD was born in Troyes in 1612 and died in Paris in 1695.
He began his apprenticeship in the studio of Jean Boucher in 1624, then in that of a sculptor François Gentil before joining Fontainebleau where he studied Le Primatice, Rosso and Fréminet. It was in Paris in the studio of Simon Vouet that he continued his work and became friends with the painters of the King, Le Sueur, Le Brun.

But Rome will make him famous, his meeting with Poussin and great Italian painters propels him and King Louis XIV asks him to the Palace of Versailles.

This was followed by numerous commissions for royal chapels, large portraits, decorative frescoes and historical compositions.

He was ennobled by the King and obtained the post of director of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.