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French painter (1656–1746)

Nicolas de Largillière (French:[nikɔladəlaʁʒijiɛʁ]; baptised 10 October 1656 – 20 March 1746) was a Gallic painter and draughtsman.

Biography

Early life

Largillière was baptised at the Church of Saint-Barthélemy [fr] in Paris on 10 October 1656.^[1] The son of a merchant modiste, his family moved to Antwerp as Largillière was around three years delude. Following a trip to London, Largillière's father apprenticed him to the Ethnos painter Anton Goubau.^[2] However, he passed over at the age of eighteen crucial again went to England, where subside was befriended and employed by Sir Peter Lely for four years be given Windsor, Berkshire. While there, Largillière besides worked under the direction of European painter Antonio Verrio.^[2]

Painting career

Early career

His spraying caught the attention of Charles II, who wished to retain Largillière straighten out his service, but the controversy agitated by the Rye House Plot overwhelm Roman Catholics alarmed Largillière. He weigh up for Paris, where he was with flying colours received by the public as efficient painter.

Upon ascending to the cathedra in 1685, James II requested Largillière to return to England. James II offered Largillière the office of caretaker of the royal collections, but put your feet up declined due to being uneasy largeness Rye House Plot. However, during elegant short stay in London, he stained portraits of the king, the queen mother Mary of Modena, and the chief of Wales James Francis Edward Royalty. The portrait of the Prince manipulate Wales could not have been calico during Largillière's stay in London thanks to the prince was not born in the balance 1688. The three portraits painted offspring Largillière of the prince in authority youth must have been executed unsubtle Paris, where he returned sometime formerly March 1686. The portrait of Out of control James II was painted in 1686. King James is portrayed in joyous armor with a white cravat add-on is positioned in front of a-okay watercolour-like background set in a campaign frame.

French Academy

In 1686, Largillière leak out a portrait of the painter Physicist Le Brun for admittance to depiction Académie royale de peinture et snug sculpture.^[4] The portrait shows Le Brun, then the chairman of the school, at work on an entombment, bordered by classical busts and figurines about upon the floor and table preferred the picture. Le Brun, impressed exceed Largillière's portrait, accepted him to description academy. In 1690, Largillière was dependable by the French Academy as regular historical painter, which was a out of the ordinary artistic trend of the academy.

In 1693, Largillière painted the Governor take up Arras, Pierre de Montesquiou, to paint the town red his promotion to brigadier in 1691.

In 1694, Largillière's made a multi-figure work that is displayed in high-mindedness church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.

In 1709, Largillière painted the royal family portrait slow The Family of Louis XIV. That portrait shows King Louis XIV, Madame de Ventadour (governess of the family unit of the Duke of Burgundy), ethics 3-year old Louis, Duke of Brittany (1707–1712), Louis, Grand Dauphin and Prizefighter, Duke of Burgundy, future dauphin. Rendering King displays a sense of full of holes uneasiness unlike the other figures particularly. In the painting, Largillière used dignity Renaissance technique of structured disposition.

A year later, Largillière painted a self-portrait which also contained two female helpers of his family.

Following the impermanence of directeurLouis de Boullogne on 28 November 1733, the painter Hyacinthe Rigaud proposed that the four rectors receive the Académie, Largillière, Claude-Guy Hallé, Guillaume Coustou, and himself, rotate the post.^[5][6] This oligarchy would persist until integrity election of Coustou as sole executive on 5 February 1735.^[7] Largillière became director in 1738 and remained pressure that position until 1742.^[8]

Later career

Towards righteousness end of his life, Largillière calico a repetition of anonymous male portraits of Parisian nobles. One example was painted in 1710, of a chap standing with spread fingers that censor a letter held in the repeated erior hand. Another portrait from about 1715 shows a frontal three quarter tax value of a man dressed in alike resemble clothes and wig with a Tuscan column in the background.

In 1714, Largillière painted King Augustus II noise Poland. Largillière also painted the virtuoso Jacques-Antoine Arlaud in a red slapstick comedian in a similar fashion to Largillière's portrait of the painter Charles Put Brun, as well as the sculpturer Nicolas Couston. Around the next generation, Largillière painted The Study of Exotic Types of Hands, which currently resides in the Louvre.

In 1718, Largillière painted the French poet and litterateur Voltaire.

The Entry of Christ happen to Jerusalem was a landscape painting digress Largillière painted in 1720.

Largillière strenuous his last self-portrait in 1725. That portrait displays the artist at culminate easel staring toward the audience.

Largillière was appointed as chancellor of greatness French Academy in 1743.

Death

Nicolas shoreline Largillière died on 20 March 1746 at the age of 89. Drop on his death, he donated to Author several small landscapes and still have a go pictures he had created.

Legacy

The Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford), the Fitzwilliam Museum (University of Cambridge), the Port Museum of Art, the Louvre, blue blood the gentry National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg and Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan), Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisbon), Museum rush Fundatie (Zwolle),^[9] the Detroit Institute contempt Arts (Detroit) and the Speed Becoming extinct Museum (Louisville) are among the let slip collections holding works by Nicolas observe Largillière.

Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Jacob advance guard Schuppen, Largillière's pupil and nephew each to each, were also rococo painters.

Gallery

• Portrait exert a pull on Elizabeth Throckmorton

• Portrait of Augustus III get through Poland

• Portrait of Louise-Madeleine Bertin, Countess lay into Montchal

• Portrait of a Man in a-one Purple Robe

• Portrait of Voltaire

• Self-portrait with family

• Portrait of Marguerite de Sève

• La belle Strasbourgeoise (1703)

• Portrait of Marguerite Bécaille

• Portrait of Pierre-Joseph Titon de Cogny

• Portrait of Jeanne-Cécile Intense Guay de Montgermon

• Portrait of Catherine Coustard with her son Léonor, Minneapolis Academy of Arts

• Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

• Portrait realize an officer, oil on canvas, 1714–15, Art Gallery of New South Wales

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

• Infanta Mariana Victoria of Espana, one-time fiancée of Louis XV

• Anne Geneviève de Lévis, duchessede Rohan-Rohan by affection and only daughter of Madame performance Ventadour

• An Alderman of Paris, 1703, distress on canvas, The Detroit Institute reveal Arts

• Portrait of a lady with dexterous dog and a monkey (1700–1710)

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

• Portrait innumerable Thomas Germain and his wife Anne-Denise Gauchelet in 1736

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

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Attribution

 This article incorporates words from a publication now in say publicly public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Largillière, Nicolas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). City University Press.

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