'Marie Mancini as Cleopatra', After Jacob Ferdinand Voet, Flemish Portrait, Italian Noblewoman, Louis XIV

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Signed and dated indistinctly, lower left, and painted circa 1850.
Framed dimensions: 39 W x 4 D x 34.5 W … Read more Signed and dated indistinctly, lower left, and painted circa 1850.
Framed dimensions: 39 W x 4 D x 34.5 W inches
Displayed in a fine and substantial, late 19th Century, carved giltwood and gesso frame

A finely painted and psychologically penetrating work painted after the original by Jacob Ferdinand Vouet (Flemish, 1639-1689), now in the collection of Berlin's Staatliche Museen. Jacob Vouet was a Flemish portrait painter who developed an international career that brought him to Italy and France where he painted portraits for an elite and aristocratic clientele. Voet is regarded as one of the best and most fashionable portrait painters of the High Baroque. This version painted in the mid-nineteenth century by a skilled and empathic hand and showing favorable comparison with the original. The charming and coquettish subject of this work, Maria Mancini, is shown directly engaging the viewer with both candor and humor.

Anna Maria "Marie" Mancini, Princess of Paliano (1639-1715) was the third of the five Mancini sisters, nieces to Cardinal Mazarin who were brought to France to marry advantageously. Along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, the Mancini sisters were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes. Marie Mancini is an ancestor of Queen Paola of Belgium. See less