Pierfrancesco Cittadini 17thC Antique Old Master Oil Painting Portrait of a Lady

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Description

A beautifully striking antique oil on canvas portrait painting by Pierfrancesco Cittadini  (1616-1681) of an aristocratic lady.  She is wearing a brown and gold dress and has a pearl choker.  Her large brown eyes have been expertly captured by the artist and really shine out from the painting.

The lady is Anna Maria (Marie) Mancini (28 August 1639 – 8 May 1715) who was the third of the five Mancini sisters; nieces to Cardinal Mazarin who were brought to France to marry advantageously. Along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, the Mancini sisters were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes.

Mancini was born on 28 August 1639 and grew up in Rome. Her father was Baron Lorenzo Mancini, an Italian aristocrat who was also a necromancer and astrologer. After his death in 1650, her mother, Geronima Mazzarini, brought her daughters from Rome to Paris in the hope of using the influence of her brother, Cardinal Mazarin, to gain them advantageous marriages.

In France, Anna Maria's name was gallicized to Marie. "Dark, vivacious and beautiful," Marie captured the biggest prize of the French court: the romantic love of Louis XIV. According to Antonia Fraser's biography Love and Louis XIV, Marie's mother, Geronima, was told by a horoscope that Marie would cause trouble and demanded on her deathbed that Cardinal Mazarin should, "shut Marie up in a convent and keep her there."

Marie did not consummate her relationship with the Sun King. His love for her was a somewhat idealistic one, but he was so besotted that he wanted to marry her. Eventually, Cardinal Mazarin and the young king's Mother, Anne of Austria, separated the couple, banishing Marie into exile and arranging for Louis' marriage to his cousin, Maria Theresa of Spain.

Works by this artist frequently sell for very high prices at auction.  Some examples are included at the end of the photos

Frame:

Set in a good quality gilt wooden frame, which is antique but possibly not the original.

Provenance:

Haynes Art of Broadway, Worcester (label verso)
UK Private Collection

Condition:

Painting and frame are both in good condition.  There is a repair to the frame top left corner and some minor blemishes and gilt loss commensurate with age.

Measurements:

Painting measures 73x 61cm and the overall frame 93 x 81cm.

Biography:

Pierfrancesco Cittadini (1616–1681) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and painting lush and rich still lifes.

Initially a pupil of Daniele Crespi, Cittadini moved to Bologna before the age of 20 to study with Guido Reni, whose influence is clearly evident in such early works as the Stoning of Saint Stephen, the Flagellation and the Crowning with Thorns in the church of Santo Stefano, Bologna. He travelled to Rome in the mid-1640s and came into contact with the French and Flemish artists living there. This international melting pot gave rise to an original artistic vocabulary aimed at the naturalistic depiction of reality in a vast number of still lifes, landscapes and portraits. He also painted decorative frescoes for the Ducal Palace of Sassuolo. During that time he managed to get commissions even by Louis XIV.

Around the middle of the century he moved to Rome , where he came up to the environment of the artists French practitioners of genre painting, thanks mainly to the success with still lifes and landscapes . Two of his sons, Giovanni Battista and Carlo Citizens Citizens also undertook the job of painters.

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  • Condition: Good Condition
  • Subject: People & Portraits
  • Medium: Oil
  • Style: Realism
  • Date of Creation: Pre-1900
  • Original/ Repro: Original

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