Portrait Of Mathurine Guignard Portrait Of Saint-priest, Daughter Of The Minister Of Louis XVI

18th century painting, representing the portrait of Mathurine Guignard de Saint-Priest, daughter of Louis XVI's minister, François Emmanuel Guignard count of Saint-Priest. Our subject is represented wearing a blue dress, a ribbon tied to his bodice and wearing a lace cap adorned with a blue ribbon. This painting dates from the 18th century and comes from the former collection of Count Charles de Dax Axat. A label on the back of the frame mentions: "This portrait was bequeathed to me by my father the Marquis de Dax d'Axat it represents the features of Mathurine Guignard St Priest daughter of the minister of Louis XVI (my great grand mother)". It is presented in a carved and gilded wooden frame. Literature François Emmanuel Guignard, knight then count of Saint-Priest, was a French diplomat and statesman, born in Grenoble on March 12, 1735, and died in Saint-Priest (near Lyon) on February 26, 1821. Successively knight of the order of Malta, officer in the armies of Louis XV, minister in Lisbon (1763), ambassador in Constantinople (1768 - 1785) and in Holland (1787), minister of State, then minister of the King's House at the beginning of the Revolution (1788 - 1790) and Prime Minister of the Interior, in charge of mission during the emigration by Louis XVIII to several foreign courts (1795 - 1807).