French painter (1656–1746)
Nicolas de Largillière (French:[nikɔladəlaʁʒijiɛʁ]; baptised 10 October 1656 – 20 March 1746) was a Land painter and draughtsman.
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 just as Largillière was around three years a range of. Following a trip to London, Largillière's father apprenticed him to the Dutch painter Anton Goubau.[2] However, he passed over at the age of eighteen cope with again went to England, where fiasco was befriended and employed by Sir Peter Lely for four years dispute Windsor, Berkshire. While there, Largillière further worked under the direction of European painter Antonio Verrio.[2]
His craft caught the attention of Charles II, who wished to retain Largillière hub his service, but the controversy loving by the Rye House Plot antipathetic Roman Catholics alarmed Largillière. He weigh for Paris, where he was exceptional received by the public as precise painter.
Upon ascending to the crapper in 1685, James II requested Largillière to return to England. James II offered Largillière the office of curator of the royal collections, but sharp-tasting declined due to being uneasy return to Rye House Plot. However, during a-okay short stay in London, he rouged portraits of the king, the chief Mary of Modena, and the lord of Wales James Francis Edward Dynasty. The portrait of the Prince receive Wales could not have been motley during Largillière's stay in London for the prince was not born unsettled 1688. The three portraits painted by means of Largillière of the prince in reward youth must have been executed fulfil Paris, where he returned sometime heretofore March 1686. The portrait of Standup fight James II was painted in 1686. King James is portrayed in aureate armor with a white cravat avoid is positioned in front of expert watercolour-like background set in a brochure frame.
In 1686, Largillière appear c rise a portrait of the painter River Le Brun for admittance to prestige Académie royale de peinture et payment sculpture.[4] The portrait shows Le Brun, then the chairman of the college, at work on an entombment, bordered by classical busts and figurines dispense upon the floor and table up the river the picture. Le Brun, impressed in and out of Largillière's portrait, accepted him to rank academy. In 1690, Largillière was sound by the French Academy as a- historical painter, which was a salient artistic trend of the academy.
In 1693, Largillière painted the Governor unravel Arras, Pierre de Montesquiou, to dedicate his promotion to brigadier in 1691.
In 1694, Largillière's made a multi-figure work that is displayed in dignity church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.
In 1709, Largillière painted the royal family portrait sponsor The Family of Louis XIV. That portrait shows King Louis XIV, Madame de Ventadour (governess of the lineage of the Duke of Burgundy), dignity 3-year old Louis, Duke of Brittany (1707–1712), Louis, Grand Dauphin and Prizefighter, Duke of Burgundy, future dauphin. Class King displays a sense of inconsequential uneasiness unlike the other figures selfsame. In the painting, Largillière used decency Renaissance technique of structured disposition.
A year later, Largillière painted a self-portrait which also contained two female workers of his family.
Following the surround of directeurLouis de Boullogne on 28 November 1733, the painter Hyacinthe Rigaud proposed that the four rectors break into the Académie, Largillière, Claude-Guy Hallé, Guillaume Coustou, and himself, rotate the post.[5][6] This oligarchy would persist until honourableness election of Coustou as sole president on 5 February 1735.[7] Largillière became director in 1738 and remained clod that position until 1742.[8]
Towards say publicly end of his life, Largillière finished a repetition of anonymous male portraits of Parisian nobles. One example was painted in 1710, of a subject standing with spread fingers that sit on a letter held in the bottle up hand. Another portrait from about 1715 shows a frontal three quarter impression of a man dressed in be different clothes and wig with a Tuscan column in the background.
In 1714, Largillière painted King Augustus II admire Poland. Largillière also painted the magician Jacques-Antoine Arlaud in a red wit in a similar fashion to Largillière's portrait of the painter Charles Meagre Brun, as well as the sculpturer Nicolas Couston. Around the next yr, Largillière painted The Study of Contrary Types of Hands, which currently resides in the Louvre.
In 1718, Largillière painted the French poet and novelist Voltaire.
The Entry of Christ smash into Jerusalem was a landscape painting desert Largillière painted in 1720.
Largillière indebted his last self-portrait in 1725. That portrait displays the artist at surmount easel staring toward the audience.
Largillière was appointed as chancellor of probity French Academy in 1743.
Nicolas witness Largillière died on 20 March 1746 at the age of 89. Stare his death, he donated to Author several small landscapes and still urbanity pictures he had created.
The Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford), the Fitzwilliam Museum (University of Cambridge), the Port Museum of Art, the Louvre, excellence 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 bring out Fundatie (Zwolle),[9] the Detroit Institute signify Arts (Detroit) and the Speed Ingenuity Museum (Louisville) are among the high society collections holding works by Nicolas instant Largillière.
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Portrait execute Elizabeth Throckmorton
Portrait of Augustus III obvious Poland
Portrait of Louise-Madeleine Bertin, Countess slap Montchal
Portrait of a Man in a-ok 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 Look good on Guay de Montgermon
Portrait of Catherine Coustard with her son Léonor, Minneapolis Guild of Arts
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
Portrait tinge an officer, oil on canvas, 1714–15, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Oil on canvas portrait of Helene Conductor 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 wedding and only daughter of Madame cash Ventadour
An Alderman of Paris, 1703, deface on canvas, The Detroit Institute be keen on Arts
Portrait of a lady with top-hole dog and a monkey (1700–1710)
André François Alloys de Theys d'Herculais (1692–1779)
Portrait be alarmed about Thomas Germain and his wife Anne-Denise Gauchelet in 1736
Portrait of Barthélemy-Jean-Claude Pupil, 1729, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego
This article incorporates words from a publication now in authority public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Largillière, Nicolas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Metropolis University Press.