MELLAN, Claude
(b. 1598, Abbeville, d. 1688, Paris)

Portrait of Henriette-Marie de Buade-Frontenac

1641
Pastel on bluish-grey paper, 17 x 14 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Henriette-Marie de Buade, sister of Louis de Buade de Frontenac, the future governor of Canada, was the wife of Henri Louis Habert de Montmor (c. 1600-1679), a French scholar and man of letters.