Acadmie royale de peinture et de sculpture office reverted to his predecessor Chancellor Sguier who named Jean-Baptiste Colbert as Vice-protecteur.
Following the death of the Protecteur of the Academie, Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661, the office reverted to his predecessor Chancellor Seguier. Later that year, Seguier named Jean-Baptiste Colbert, King Louis XIV's trusted minister, as Vice-protecteur. 
