Lot Essay
The composition is closely related to that of Mignard's 'Portrait of Catherine-Marguerite Mignard, Comtesse de Feuquières, as Fame' at Versailles (L. Nikolenko, Pierre Mignard, 1983, pp.83-4 and pl.16), in which the sitter supports a portrait of her father in identical fashion to the portrait of Raphael depicted in the present picture