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(b 1599; d Paris, 1681). French official, patron and collector. He was Secretary of State to Louis XIII from 1629 to 1654 and was one of the few contemporary French collectors to commission paintings directly from Italian artists. In 1635, the year of his marriage to Marie Particelli d’Emery, work was begun under François Mansart (see Mansart family, §1) on the construction of the Hôtel de La Vrillière (Rue de La Vrillière, Paris; parts survive as the Banque de France), which, largely completed by 1641, was probably the finest example of Mansart’s domestic architecture in Paris. The most notable feature of the interior was the upper gallery (remodelled 1714–19; reconstructed 1870s), for which La Vrillière commissioned between 1635 and c. 1660 a series of ten paintings of Classical subjects by Guercino, Nicolas Poussin, Guido Reni, Pietro da Cortona, Alessandro Turchi and Carlo Maratti. Evidently installed first were Guercino’s Cato of Utica Saying Farewell to his Son...