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See also:NATTIER, See also:JEAN MARC (1685–1766) , See also:French painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris in 1685, the son of Marc Nattier, a portrait painter, and of See also:Marie See also:Courtois, a miniaturist. He received his first instruction from his See also:father, and having applied himself to copying pictures at the Luxembourg See also:Gallery, he refused to proceed to the French See also:Academy in See also:Rome, though he had taken the first See also:prize at the Paris Academy at the See also:age of fifteen. In 1715 he went to See also:Amsterdam, where See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter the See also:Great was then staying, and painted portraits of the See also:tsar and the empress See also:Catherine, but declined an offer to go to See also:Russia. Between 1715 and 1720 he devoted himself to compositions like the " See also:Battle of Pultawa," which he painted for Peter the Great, and the " Petrification of See also:Phineus and of his Companions," which Lid to his See also:election to the Academy. The See also:financial collapse of 1720 caused by the schemes of See also:Law all but ruined Nattier, who found himself forced to devote his whole See also:energy to See also:portraiture. He became the painter of the artificial ladies of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XV.'s See also:court. The most notable examples of his straightforward portraiture are the " Marie Leczinska " at the See also:Dijon Museum, and a See also:group of the artist surrounded by his See also:family, dated 1730. He died in Paris in 1766. Many of his pictures are in the public collections of See also:France. Thus at the Louvre is his " Magdalen "; at See also:Nantes the portrait of " La See also:Camargo " and " A See also:Lady of the Court of Louis XV." At See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans a " See also:Head of a See also:Young Girl," .at See also:Marseilles a portrait of " Mme de See also:Pompadour," at See also:Perpignan a portrait of " Louis XV., " and at See also:Valenciennes a portrait of " Le Duc de See also:Boufflers." The See also:Versailles Museum owns an important group of two ladies, and the See also:Dresden Gallery a portrait of the " Marechal de See also:Saxe." At the See also:Wallace collection Nattier is represented by " The Comtesse de Dillieres," "The See also:Bath (Mdllede Clermont)," " Portrait of a Lady in See also:Blue," " Marie Leczinska " and " A See also:Prince of the See also:House of France." In the collection of Mr Lionel See also:Phillips are the duchess of Flavacourt as " Le Silence," and the duchess of Chhteauroux as "Le Point du jour." A portrait of the " Comtesse de Neubourg and her Daughter " formed See also:part of the Vaile Collection, and realized 4500 gs. at the See also:sale of this collection in 1903. Nattier's See also:works have been engraved by Leroy, Tardieu, Lepicie, See also:Audran, See also:Dupin and many other noted craftsmen.
See " J. M. Nattier," by See also:Paul Mantz, in the See also:Gazette See also:des See also:beaux-arts (1894); See also:Life of Nattier, by his daughter, Madame Tocque; Nattier, by See also:Pierre de Nolhac (1904, revised 191o); and French Painters of the XVIIIth See also:Century, by Lady See also:Dilke (See also:London, 1899).
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