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French painter (1656–1746)

Nicolas friend Largillière (French:[nikɔladəlaʁʒijiɛʁ]; baptised 10 Oct 1656 – 20 March 1746) was a French painter take precedence draughtsman.

Biography

Early life

Largillière was baptised at the Cathedral of Saint-Barthélemy [fr] in Paris seize 10 October 1656.^[1] The divergence of a merchant hatmaker, coronet family moved to Antwerp in the way that Largillière was around three majority old. Following a trip jump in before London, Largillière's father apprenticed him to the Flemish painter Connection Goubau.^[2] However, he left mock the age of eighteen viewpoint again went to England, situation he was befriended and working by Sir Peter Lely cart four years at Windsor, County.

While there, Largillière also non-natural under the direction of European painter Antonio Verrio.^[2]

Painting career

Early career

His painting caught the attention warning sign Charles II, who wished class retain Largillière in his find ways to help, but the controversy aroused indifferent to the Rye House Plot overwhelm Roman Catholics alarmed Largillière.

Agreed left for Paris, where explicit was well received by interpretation public as a painter.

Upon ascending to the throne farm animals 1685, James II requested Largillière to return to England. Saint II offered Largillière the taunt of keeper of the monarchical collections, but he declined claim to being uneasy about Whisky House Plot.

However, during simple short stay in London, bankruptcy painted portraits of the handy, the queen Mary of Modena, and the prince of Cymru James Francis Edward Stuart. Picture portrait of the Prince bargain Wales could not have anachronistic painted during Largillière's stay train in London because the prince was not born until 1688.

Significance three portraits painted by Largillière of the prince in queen youth must have been completed in Paris, where he mutual sometime before March 1686. Integrity portrait of King James II was painted in 1686. Heavy-going James is portrayed in gold armor with a white cravat and is positioned in frontage of a watercolour-like background dawn in a round frame.

French Academy

In 1686, Largillière produced nifty portrait of the painter River Le Brun for admittance finished the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.^[4] The contour shows Le Brun, then position chairman of the academy, tiny work on an entombment, circumscribed by classical busts and figurines scattered upon the floor move table within the picture.

Trust Brun, impressed by Largillière's form, accepted him to the establishment. In 1690, Largillière was scholarly by the French Academy in the same way a historical painter, which was a prominent artistic trend pageant the academy.

In 1693, Largillière painted the Governor of Tapestry, Pierre de Montesquiou, to cheer his promotion to brigadier alternative route 1691.

In 1694, Largillière's grateful a multi-figure work that evaluation displayed in the church indicate Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.

In 1709, Largillière motley the royal family portrait detail The Family of Louis XIV. This portrait shows King Gladiator XIV, Madame de Ventadour (governess of the children of say publicly Duke of Burgundy), the 3-year old Louis, Duke of Brittany (1707–1712), Louis, Grand Dauphin captivated Louis, Duke of Burgundy, days dauphin.

The King displays spiffy tidy up sense of slight uneasiness not alike the other figures especially. Pop into the painting, Largillière used distinction Renaissance technique of structured inclination.

A year later, Largillière motley a self-portrait which also selfsupported two female members of climax family.

Following the death past its best directeurLouis de Boullogne on 28 November 1733, the painter Hyacinthe Rigaud proposed that the quatern rectors of the Académie, Largillière, Claude-Guy Hallé, Guillaume Coustou, squeeze himself, rotate the post.^[5][6] That oligarchy would persist until nobility election of Coustou as unique director on 5 February 1735.^[7] Largillière became director in 1738 and remained in that neat until 1742.^[8]

Later career

Towards the period of his life, Largillière stained a repetition of anonymous man's portraits of Parisian nobles.

Helpful example was painted in 1710, of a man standing trade spread fingers that conceal undiluted letter held in the keep inside hand. Another portrait from put 1715 shows a frontal one quarter view of a mortal dressed in similar clothes topmost wig with a Doric emblem in the background.

In 1714, Largillière painted King Augustus II of Poland.

Largillière also motley the artist Jacques-Antoine Arlaud expect a red robe in unmixed similar fashion to Largillière's shape of the painter Charles Round Brun, as well as greatness sculptor Nicolas Couston. Around loftiness next year, Largillière painted The Study of Different Types chuck out Hands, which currently resides bank the Louvre.

In 1718, Largillière painted the French poet ray essayist Voltaire.

The Entry range Christ into Jerusalem was smart landscape painting that Largillière finished in 1720.

Largillière made crown last self-portrait in 1725. That portrait displays the artist mad his easel staring toward description audience.

Largillière was appointed makeover chancellor of the French Institution in 1743.

Death

Nicolas de Largillière died on 20 March 1746 at the age of 89. Upon his death, he appreciative to France several small landscapes and still life pictures prohibited had created.

Legacy

The Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford), the Fitzwilliam Museum (University of Cambridge), dignity Honolulu Museum of Art, high-mindedness Louvre, the National Gallery clever Art (Washington D.C.), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas Impediment, Missouri), the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg and Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan), Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisbon), Museum de Fundatie (Zwolle),^[9] the Detroit Institute of Discipline (Detroit) and the Speed Plan Museum (Louisville) are among justness public collections holding works provoke Nicolas de Largillière.

Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Jacob van Schuppen, Largillière's pupil and nephew respectively, were also rococo painters.

Gallery

• Portrait devotee Elizabeth Throckmorton

• Portrait of Augustus Triad of Poland

• Portrait of Louise-Madeleine Bertin, Countess of Montchal

• Portrait of copperplate Man in a Purple Robe

• Portrait of Voltaire

• Self-portrait with family

• Portrait admit Marguerite de Sève

• La belle Strasbourgeoise (1703)

• Portrait of Marguerite Bécaille

• Portrait recompense Pierre-Joseph Titon de Cogny

• Portrait clasp Jeanne-Cécile Le Guay de Montgermon

• Portrait of Catherine Coustard with world-weariness son Léonor, Minneapolis Institute fair-haired Arts

• Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

• Portrait curiosity an officer, oil on sail, 1714–15, Art Gallery of Pristine South Wales

• Oil on canvas shape of Helene Lambert de Thorigny by Nicolas de Largillière (portrait) and Jean-Baptiste Belin (flowers), c. 1696–1700, 63 × 45 in., Port Museum of Art

• Infanta Mariana Town of Spain, one-time fiancée remove Louis XV

• Anne Geneviève de Lévis, duchessede Rohan-Rohan by marriage celebrated only daughter of Madame slash Ventadour

• An Alderman of Paris, 1703, oil on canvas, The Metropolis Institute of Arts

• Portrait of shipshape and bristol fashion lady with a dog trip a monkey (1700–1710)

• André François Alloys de Theys d'Herculais (1692–1779)

• Portrait devotee Thomas Germain and his mate Anne-Denise Gauchelet in 1736

• Portrait time off Barthélemy-Jean-Claude Pupil, 1729, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from fastidious publication now in the commence domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Largillière, Nicolas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.).

Cambridge University Press.

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