Hyacinthe RIGAUD (1659-1743). Dictated manuscript, signed 9 times with his monogram R, Paris May 30, 1707; 4 pages in-fol. His first will. The signed minute is preserved in the Minutier central (study XCV, 36); five other later wills of Rigaud are known, in 1711, 1715, 1726, 1735 and 1741. This will, dictated to notary Debeauvais, is the copy given to the testator. He instituted various legacies, including, to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, "his portrait with the border, and celluy of the late Mr. Mignard", to Monseigneur le Dauphin "the white marble bust of damoiselle Marie Serre, his mother, made by Mr. Coysevox" [now in the Louvre]; he gave his nephew Hyacinthe Rigaud the portrait of his mother, endowed his other nephews and nieces as well, and chose Sieur Charles Collin, a professor of mathematics, as the executor. A paragraph concerning the bequest to Elisabeth Gouy, widow Lejuge, of a farm in Vaux and its dependencies has been crossed out (it does not appear on the Minutier copy). [Rigaud had painted a portrait of the Le Juge family in 1699 (Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada); he painted a portrait of Elisabeth de Gouy, widow of Le Juge, around 1707-1708 before marrying her on May 17, 1710].