Acadmie royale de peinture et de sculpture office reverted to his predecessor Chancellor Sguier who named Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619  6 September 1683)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. Jean-Baptiste Colbert (French: [.ba.tist kl.b; 29 August 1619  6 September 1683) was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. 
