Group portrait, traditionally identified as three children of Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan (1640-1707): a young boy in a blue velvet coat with gold frogging, a lace jabot and plumed hat, with a parrot, a young girl in a red silk dress with lace trim, a flower garland and a lap dog, a young girl in a blue silk dress with lace trim and a posey, sitting on a gold-embroidered velvet pillow

Philippe Vignon was the son of the baroque artist Claude Vignon from his first marriage to Charlotte de Leu. He worked predominantly as a portrait artist and painted the double portrait of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon (1677-1749) and her sister Louise-Françoise de Bourbon (1673-1743), two of the seven children of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, the king's maîtresse-en-titre. The sitters in this portrait have traditionally been identified as the children of Madame de Montespan.