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Painter/Artist: - Antoine Le Nain - Jean-Marc Nattier Other Encyclopedias: - Furniture - Glass - Pottery And Porcelain - Metals - Textiles - Biographies - Clocks And Watches |
Jean-Marc NattierFrench School. A favourite painter of the royal Princesses and ladies of the Court of Louis XV. At Versailles one entire gallery is filled with his portraits of Princesses. A fine whole-length of Comte Maurice de Saxe is at Dresden (No. 783), and in the Museum at Marseilles is a celebrated picture of the Duchesse de Chateaurouz as Aurora ("Le Point du jour"). LONDON, WALLACE COLLECTION LA CONTESSE DE TILLIERES Formerly called Portrait of a Lady in Blue. Half length, seated in a chair, full face, a young woman with her hair brushed back from her forehead. She is in a loose blue pelisse trimmed with fur, and sits looking at us with her arms crossed, the hands covered by her pelisse. Plain background.
( Originally Publihed 1910 )
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