Portrait Of Mademoiselle De Blois. Atelier De Pierre Mignard.

Portrait of oval format depicting Mademoiselle de Blois. Oil painting on fixed chassis with cross-pieces. Rentoilage old. Original gilt wood frame, carved with stylized flowers and foliage. Legitimated in 1667 under the title of Mademoiselle de Blois, Marie-Anne generally passes to be the favorite daughter of the Sun King, perhaps because she has not ceased to remind her of her favorite Louise de la Vallière. Often described as a "prodigy of grace and grace," and readily compared to Aurora, the daughter of the Sun, she was beautiful, tall and majestic, an excellent ballet dancer, to surpass the dancers of the Opera. When she was only fourteen, the king married her to the Prince de Conti, who had the good taste of dying five years later. Having become a princess of Conti dowager, she lived a fairly free life and refused the offers of second marriages made to her: the last, in 1699, came from the sultan of Morocco. On the death of her mother she inherited the duchy of La Valliere.