Jean Nocret

[1] Poussin, however, thought that Nocret was a pretentious young man and complained that he left his work unfinished because he had received better offers.

Five years later, he managed to obtain an appointment as painter to King Louis XIV and Gaston, Duke of Orléans.

In 1657, he accompanied the Bishop of Comminges on a diplomatic mission to Portugal, and executed portraits of the Portuguese Royal Family.

[2] Back in Paris, in 1660, he was commissioned by the new Duke of Orléans to decorate the interiors of the Château de Saint-Cloud with scenes from Greek mythology.

[1] Between 1666 and 1669, he decorated the Queen's apartments at the Tuileries, under the direction of Charles Le Brun.

Jean Nocret; posthumous portrait by his son, Jean-Charles (1674)
Group portrait of the French Royal Family dressed as characters from mythology. King Louis XIV is Apollo . (1670). The sitters are identified on the image's page at Wikimedia Commons.