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Jean-Marc Nattier
Kingdom of France
Died7 November 1766(1766-11-07) (aged 81)
Paris, Kingdom of France
Known forPainting
MovementRococo

Jean-Marc Nattier (17 March 1685 – 7 November 1766) was a French

King Louis XV
's court in classical mythological attire.

Life

He received his first instruction from his father, and from his uncle, the history painter

Peter the Great was then staying, and painted portraits of the tsar and the empress Catherine, but declined an offer to go to Russia.[1]

Nattier aspired to be a history painter. Between 1715 and 1720 he devoted himself to compositions like the Battle of Pultawa, which he painted for Peter the Great, and the Petrification of Phineus and of his Companions, which led to his election to the Academy. He died in Paris in 1766.[1]

Portraits

Portrait of Madame Marie-Henriette Berthelot de Pléneuf

The financial collapse of 1720 caused by the schemes of

Louis XV's court. He subsequently revived the genre of the allegorical portrait, in which a living person is depicted as a Greco-Roman goddess or other mythological figure.[1]

Nattier's graceful and charming portraits of court ladies in this mode were very fashionable, partly because he could beautify a sitter while also retaining her likeness. The most notable examples of his straightforward portraiture are the

Mathilde de Carbonnel-Canisy, marquise d'Antin. The portrait is permanently exhibited at the musée Jacquemart-André in Paris and remains one of the most popular works in the Jacquemart-André Collection.[2]

Many of his notable paintings are on permanent exhibit at major museums. Thus at the

La Camargo and A Lady of the Court of Louis XV. At Orléans a Head of a Young Girl, at Marseilles a portrait of Mme de Pompadour, at Perpignan a portrait of Louis XV, and at Valenciennes a portrait of Le Duc de Boufflers. The Versailles Museum owns an important group of two ladies, and the Dresden Gallery a portrait of the Maréchal de Saxe
.

At the Wallace collection Nattier is represented by The comtesse de Tillières (formerly known as Portrait of a Lady in Blue),

duchess of Châteauroux as Le Point du jour (now at Marseilles). A portrait of the Comtesse de Neubourg and her Daughter formed part of the Vaile Collection, and realized 4500 guineas at the sale of this collection in 1903. Nattier's works have been engraved by Alphonse Leroy, Tardieu, Jean Audran (1667–1756), Dupin and many other noted craftsmen.

Duchesse de Chartres as Hebe

The 1753 Marquis de Marigny is in the collection of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.[3]

The Getty Museum has Madame Bonier de la Mosson as Diana, 1742. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has Madame de Maison-Rouge as Diana, 1756.[1] The 1744 Duchesse de Chartres as Hebe Nationalmuseum is in the collection of Nationalmuseum.

Select gallery

Sources

  • Nattier: Jean-Marc Nattier Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs: Issued Monthly; June, 1902, Part 30, Vol. 3, (Bates & Guild Co., Boston)

References

Media related to Jean-Marc Nattier at Wikimedia Commons

  1. ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
  2. ^ "Portrait of Mathilde de Canisy, marquise d'Antin". Archived from the original on Apr 5, 2023.
  3. ^ "Acquisitions of the month: November 2018". Apollo Magazine. 7 December 2018.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Nattier, Jean Marc". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.; Endnotes:

  • See "J. M. Nattier", by Paul Mantz, in the Gazette des beaux-arts (1894)
  • Life of Nattier, by his daughter, Madame Tocqué
  • Nattier by Pierre de Nolhac (1904, revised 1910)
  • French Painters of the XVIIIth Century, by
    Lady Dilke
    (London, 1899).
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