Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels

Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, or Louise-Madeleine Hortemels, also called Magdeleine Horthemels (1686 – 2 October 1767), was a French

engraver, the mother of Charles-Nicolas Cochin

. She is also sometimes credited under her married name of Louise Madeleine Cochin or Madeleine Cochin.

Life

The

Jansenist thought in France.^[1]

Active as a

Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe (1682–1727),^[1] who was the wife of Nicolas-Henri Tardieu (1674–1749), an eminent engraver, a member of the Academy from 1720,^[2] and Marie-Nicole (b. 1689, died after 1745),^[1] who was married to the portrait artist Alexis Simon Belle.^[3]

Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels' son Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger became an engraver to the court of

King Louis XV, a designer, writer, and art critic.^[4]

Horthemels died in Paris at her son's house on 2 October 1767.

Work

Horthemels was active in Paris as an engraver for nearly fifty years and produced more than sixty signed copper plates.^[1]

Her first published work was a frontispiece for Alain-René Lesage's novel Le Diable boiteux (1707), which she signed Magdeleine Horthemels fec.^[1] Her later work is signed variously Magd. Horthemels, L. Mag. Horthemels, M. Horthemels, Magd. Horthemels Sponsa C. Cochin, and Magdeleine Cochin.^[1]

It was long believed that Louise-Magdeleine and her sisters Marie-Nicole and Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe all signed work Marie Horthemels, but a careful study has shown that the signed work of the sisters can easily be distinguished. Nevertheless, the members of the family commonly worked together on a single composition.^[1]

Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels engraved paintings by

King Louis XIV.^[6]

Horthemels completed a great plate called Le feu d'artifice de la place de Navone, after

Giovanni Pannini, which had been begun by her son Charles Nicolas Cochin.^[1] She also engraved portraits, such as a copper engraving of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, after an early eighteenth-century painting by her brother-in-law Alexis Simon Belle.^[7]

In the early work of Horthemels as an engraver, there is a certain rigidity of line, while architectural detail is emphasized. However, her skill lay in engraving the work of others so that their genius was revealed and her own style was suppressed. Her hand was sure, and her work shows a delicacy and clarity of touch which were much admired in her own time.[1]

Gallery

Abbey of Port-Royal des Champs, by Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, c. 1709
Caring for the Sick
Distributing Alms to the Poor
The Sisters of the Abbey
General View
Nuns Meeting in Solitude
View of the Refectory

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels: Reproductive Engraver by Elizabeth Poulson in Woman's Art Journal, vol. 6, no. 2 (Autumn, 1985 – Winter, 1986), pp. 20–23
^ Les Forces Mouvantes at georgeglazer.com (accessed 11 February 2008)
^ Alexis Simon Belle biography at getty.edu (accessed 14 February 2008)
^ Charles-Nicolas Cochin, b. 1715 Paris, d. 1790 Paris, draftsman Archived 4 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine, short biography at getty.edu (accessed 14 February 2008)
^ Woman having her hair styled, eighteenth century engraved by Louise-Madeleine Horthemels after Nicolas Lancret, line engraving, at the web site of the New York Public Library digital collection (accessed 14 February 2008)
^ Augustin Gazier, Histoire générale du mouvement janséniste (Paris, H. Champion, 1924) volume 1, pp. 228–230
^ NPG D10695 Prince James Francis Edward Stuart after Alexis Simon Belle, line engraving, early 18th century, at the web site of the National Portrait Gallery, London (accessed 14 February 2008)

External links

Louise Madeleine Cochin (née Horthemels) (1686–1767) at the web site of the
National Portrait Gallery, London

[poulson-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels: Reproductive Engraver by Elizabeth Poulson in Woman's Art Journal, vol. 6, no. 2 (Autumn, 1985 – Winter, 1986), pp. 20–23

[2] Les Forces Mouvantes at georgeglazer.com (accessed 11 February 2008)

[3] Alexis Simon Belle biography at getty.edu (accessed 14 February 2008)

[4] Charles-Nicolas Cochin, b. 1715 Paris, d. 1790 Paris, draftsman Archived 4 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine, short biography at getty.edu (accessed 14 February 2008)

[5] Woman having her hair styled, eighteenth century engraved by Louise-Madeleine Horthemels after Nicolas Lancret, line engraving, at the web site of the New York Public Library digital collection (accessed 14 February 2008)

[6] Augustin Gazier, Histoire générale du mouvement janséniste (Paris, H. Champion, 1924) volume 1, pp. 228–230

[7] NPG D10695 Prince James Francis Edward Stuart after Alexis Simon Belle, line engraving, early 18th century, at the web site of the National Portrait Gallery, London (accessed 14 February 2008)

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