Mistresses were a royal perquisite and she was Louis XIV's third mistress, serving from 1667 to about 1680. Her Wikipedia article is here.
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1556 Catherine de Medici possibly by Agnolo Bronzino
1670s Gabriela Mancini by Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Hermitage)
Marquise de Montespan as Iris by Louis Elle the Younger (Versailles)
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