Lot 70
70
JEAN PETITOT (SWISS, 1607-1691)
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JEAN PETITOT (SWISS, 1607-1691)

Chancellor Pierre Séguier (1588-1672), in black gown and white collar, red moiré robes and wearing a blue moiré ribbon with pectoral cross around his neck

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JEAN PETITOT (SWISS, 1607-1691)
Chancellor Pierre Séguier (1588-1672), in black gown and white collar, red moiré robes and wearing a blue moiré ribbon with pectoral cross around his neck
enamel on gold
oval, 1 1/16 in. (27 mm.) high, reeded copper mount
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 20 December 1971, lot 41 (£300 to Lavender, as portrait of Jacques Amelot, Councillor of Parliament in Paris 1627 and maître des requêtes in 1633).
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Lot Essay

As counsellor to the Paris Parliament, Séguier rose to become chancellor in 1635. He crushed a revolt in Normandy in 1639 and presided over the trial of the Marquis de Cinq Mars in 1642. In 1661 he accused Nicholas Fouquet of embezzlement at the start of a trial that ended in Fouquet's being condemned to banishment in 1664 and eventually, life imprisonment. A friend of Cardinal Mazarin, he was instrumental in having Parliament accept Anne of Austria as regent for her infant son, Louis XIV.

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