Portrait Of Young Woman Representing Madame Marguerite Manuelo

Portrait of a young woman with a ribbon representing a three-quarter bust of Madame Marguerite Manuelo Chiareli, wife of Claude Hénin. Oil on canvas French School Period of the 18th century Usual restorations, rear frame in gilded stucco in 18th century style H. 80 x L. 64.5 cm Claude Hénin de Cuvilliers is a knight, Lord of Vauxelles, and was born in Amiens on April 24, 1645, and died on September 14, 1731. He was received into the office of controller and paymaster of the Chamber of Accounts of Paris, on December 2, 1670; registered on the said date of its receipt in the General Armorial, manuscript deposited at the registry of the said court of accounts. He was then general controller of the increase of the seal, keeper of the rolls of the offices of France, on March 25, 1675, in which he is said to have been received in the said council of state, to serve there, to have entered, sat and voted there. deliberative, etc… He was portrayed by Hyacinthe Rigaud in 1687 which also shows the importance and place of the couple within their time (portrait kept in a private collection but listed in the artist's catalogue). He therefore married, by contract of April 6, 1677, passed by Moufle and Beauvais his colleague, notaries in Paris, Dame Marguerite Manuel Chiarelly, daughter of Messire François-Manuel, Count of Chiarelly, Lord of Farinville, ordinary gentleman of HRH the Duke from Orléans, from a noble family originally from Corsica.