Nicolas Mignard
( 1606 - 1668 )
Portrait of Scipion du Roure, aged 30 (1628 – 1696)
1658
Oil on canvas
67 x 53 cm (26 ³/₈ x 20 ⁷/₈ inches)
Signed and dated 'N. MIGNARD PINXIT / AVENIONE 1658' on the back of the original canvas
Private collection, Europe
Scipion du Roure (1628-1696), Mas de Tressauses, Camargue, France
thence by descent through the du Roure family, Marseille, France, until 2017
thence by descent through the du Roure family, Marseille, France, until 2017
Related Literature
F.A.A. de La Chesnaye-Desbois, Dictionnaire de la noblesse, Paris, 2nd ed. 1778, XII, p. 354, entry on Scipion du Roure
A. Schnapper, Mignard d'Avignon, 1606-1668, exh.cat., Avignon, 1979
P. Rosenberg et al, France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-century French Paintings in American Collections, exh. cat., New York, 1982, pp. 286-287
F.A.A. de La Chesnaye-Desbois, Dictionnaire de la noblesse, Paris, 2nd ed. 1778, XII, p. 354, entry on Scipion du Roure
A. Schnapper, Mignard d'Avignon, 1606-1668, exh.cat., Avignon, 1979
P. Rosenberg et al, France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-century French Paintings in American Collections, exh. cat., New York, 1982, pp. 286-287