After studying painting with a local master in Troyes, France, Nicholas Mignard traveled to Fontainebleau to copy the chateau's Mannerist frescoes, which influenced his early paintings. He painted his first recorded work in a Provence convent in 1633. Two years later, he traveled to Rome with the Cardinal Archbishop of Lyon. There for another two years, Mignard probably stayed at the Palazzo Farne
