Pierre Mignard I worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Pierre Mignard I as French painter (1612-1695).
Pierre Mignard I was born at Troyes in 1612. His recorded nationality is France.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter, muralist and designer.
His recorded movement is classicism and baroque painting.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Pierre Mignard I died in 1695, aged 83. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Classicism and Baroque painting
