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Pierre Mignard

1612 - 1695

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Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ miɲaʁ]; 17 November 1612 – 30 May 1695), called "Mignard le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits. He was a near-contemporary of the Premier Peintre du Roi Charles Le Brun with whom he engaged in a bitter, life-long rivalry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Mignard is the 315th most popular painter (up from 356th in 2019), the 976th most popular biography from France (up from 1,130th in 2019) and the 70th most popular French Painter.

Pierre Mignard was a French painter who is most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and his family.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pierre Mignard ranks 315 out of 2,023. Before him are Marie Bashkirtseff, Karel van Mander, Lorenzo Costa, František Kupka, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, and Daniele da Volterra. After him are Carl Spitzweg, Shitao, Anton Mauve, Giacomo Balla, Il Sodoma, and Vasily Vereshchagin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1612, Pierre Mignard ranks 7. Before him are Murad IV, Dorgon, Wu Sangui, Louis Le Vau, Saskia van Uylenburgh, and Thomas Fairfax. After him are Antoine Arnauld, Samuel Butler, Peter Stuyvesant, Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, and Claude Françoise de Lorraine. Among people deceased in 1695, Pierre Mignard ranks 7. Before him are Christiaan Huygens, Jean de La Fontaine, Ahmed II, Henry Purcell, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Johann Ambrosius Bach. After him are Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Zumbi, Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, Thomas Tew, and Melchior d'Hondecoeter.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Mignard ranks 976 out of 6,770. Before him are Pauline Viardot (1821), Agnès Sorel (1422), Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653), Maria Malibran (1808), Jeanne d'Évreux (1310), and Joseph Babinski (1857). After him are Charles François Dumouriez (1739), Geneviève Page (1927), Philipp Spener (1635), Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), Theodore Beza (1519), and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Pierre Mignard ranks 70. Before him are Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725), Georges Rouault (1871), Martin Schongauer (1450), Jacques Callot (1592), and François Clouet (1510). After him are Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836), Thomas Couture (1815), Paul Sérusier (1864), Claude Joseph Vernet (1714), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749), and Horace Vernet (1789).

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