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Description: | Pierre Mignard trained in France in the studio of Simon Vouet, but spent many years in Italy where he was much influenced by the work of Domenichino, the Carracci and Poussin. He was recalled to Paris on the orders of Louis XIV, where he carved his principal career as portrait painter to the Court. Though the identities of the young girls in this painting have now been lost, they would have been the children of wealthy and aristocratic members of society, and are fashionably dressed as the mythological goddesses Minerva, Venus and Diana, respectively goddesses of war, love and hunting. | Subjects: | portrait; figure; landscape; animal (deer) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Mignard, Pierre, I (French painter and portraitist, 1612-1695) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8643... | Go to resource |
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