{"product_id":"19738-music-iconography-mignard-pierre-angels-making-music-17th-century-ink-drawing","title":"[Music Iconography] Mignard, Pierre. (1612–1695) \"Angels Making Music\" – 17th Century Ink Drawing","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eOriginal 17th century ink drawing by the French Baroque artist, depicting a scene of angels playing a flute, cello, violin and lyre.  Inscribed \"Mignard\" to the lower right corner.  This example is a \u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eclosely related work to the drawing \"Angelic Concert in the Clouds\" held in the Staedel Museum, Frankfurt.\u003c\/span\u003e  Indian ink washed on paper.  \u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eMounted on paper with remains of mounting on verso, waterstain at upper and lower left and some toning.  Irregularly trimmed.  Overall fine condition.  9.25 x 13.75 inches (23.2 x 35.1 cm.), mounted to an overall size of 19.75 x 13.75 inches (50.2 x 34.9 cm.).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\"Pierre Mignard was, with Charles Le Brun (1619–90), one of the most successful painters of the reign of Louis XIV.  He worked for the King and many of the principal figures at court both as a portraitist and as a painter of large-scale decorative schemes.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eAfter training in Troyes, where he was born, and in Bourges, Mignard joined the studio of \u003c\/span\u003eSimon Vouet\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e in Paris in 1627.  He went to Italy in 1636 and remained there until 1657.  He studied the work of \u003c\/span\u003eCorreggio\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e and Pietro da Cortona in Rome as well as copying \u003c\/span\u003eAnnibale Carracci\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e's frescoes in the Palazzo Farnese.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eMignard's best known surviving decorative scheme is the dome of the church of the Val-de-Grâce in Paris, commissioned by Louis XIV's queen, Anne of Austria. Because of his rivalry with Le Brun, Mignard was unwilling to become a member of the \u003c\/span\u003eAcademy\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, but on Le Brun's death in 1690 he succeeded him as its Director and as First Painter to the King.\" (The National Gallery, nationalgallery.org.uk)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093725925535,"sku":"19738","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Mignard_Angels_Making_Music_19738a.jpg?v=1722189935","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/19738-music-iconography-mignard-pierre-angels-making-music-17th-century-ink-drawing","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}