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Portrait of the actress Marie-Anne de Chateauneuf Print by Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of the actress Marie-Anne de Chateauneuf

 Marie Louise Elisabeth d'Orleans Duchess of Berry as Flora Print by Nicolas de Largilliere

Marie Louise Elisabeth d'Orleans Duchess of Berry as Flora

Portrait of a Woman Print by Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Man

Princess Rákóczi

Maria Anna Victoria of Bourbon-Farnese

Portrait of the Marquise de Gueydan as Flora

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

Portrait of Louis XIV and his heirs

Nicolas de Largilliere

Self Portrait with Family

Nicolas de Largilliere

 Elizabeth Throckmorton, Canoness of the Order of the Dames Augustines Anglaises

Voltaire

Augustus III of Poland

Nicolas de Largilliere

The Sculptor Nicolas Coustou in His Atelier

Nicolas de Largilliere

Nature morte à l'aiguière.

Nicolas de Largilliere

Engagement of Louis XV and Marie Anne Victory of Bourbon

Nicolas de Largilliere

François de Gontaut, Duc de Biron

Nicolas de Largilliere

Study of Hands

Nicolas de Largilliere

La Belle Strasbourgeoise

Nicolas de Largilliere

Landscape

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of Jacques-Antoine Arlaud copying the Leda of Michelangelo

Nicolas de Largilliere

Two bunches of grapes

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of Charles Le Brun

Nicolas de Largilliere

The French Parnassus Titon du Tillet

Nicolas de Largilliere

Female portrait

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of a Man

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of a Young Man with a Wig

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of a Boy in Fancy Dress

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of a Young Nobleman (Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Brittany, (1707–1712)

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of actress Marie-Anne de Châteauneuf, known as Miss Duclos (1664-1747), in the role of Ariadne

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of an officer

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of Pierre Cadeau de Mongazon

Nicolas de Largilliere

Partridge in a Niche

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of the Duchesse de Saint-Aignan

Nicolas de Largilliere

Porrtrait of a Lady

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of a Man in a Purple Robe

Nicolas de Largilliere

Provost and Municipal Magistrates of Paris

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Nicolas de Largilliere

Self-Portrait

Nicolas de Largilliere

Self-Portrait

Nicolas de Largilliere

Still-Life

Nicolas de Largilliere

The Marquise de Noailles and his children

Nicolas de Largilliere

Tutor and Pupil

Nicolas de Largillière (October 10, 1656 – March 20, 1746) was a French Painter born in Paris. 

Biography
Early life

Largillière's father, a merchant, took him to Antwerp at the age of three. As a boy, he spent nearly two years in London. Sometime after his return to Antwerp, a failed attempt at business led him to the studio of Goubeau. However, Largillière left at the age of eighteen and went to England, where he was befriended and employed by Peter Lely for four years at Windsor, Berkshire.

Painting career
Early career

Portrait of General Bardo di Bardi Magalotti (before 1693), National Museum, Warsaw

His painting caught the attention of Charles II, who wished to retain Largillière in his service, but the controversy aroused by the Rye House Plot against Roman Catholics alarmed Largillière. Largillière left for Paris, where he was well received by the public as a painter.

Upon ascending to the throne in 1685, James II requested Largillière to return to England. James II offered Largillière the office of keeper of the royal collections, but he declined due to being uneasy about Rye House Plot. However, during a short stay in London, he painted portraits of the king, the queen Mary of Modena, and the prince of Wales James Francis Edward Stuart. The portrait of the Prince of Wales could not have been painted during Largillière's stay in London because the prince was not born until 1688. The three portraits painted by Largillière of the prince in his youth must have been executed in Paris, where he returned sometime before March 1686. The portrait of King James II was painted in 1686. King James is portrayed in golden armor with a white cravat and is positioned in front of a watercolour-like background set in a round frame.

The Islaic Academy

In Paris, during the year 1686, Largillière produced a portrait of the painter Charles Le Brun for admittance to the French Academy. The portrait shows Le Brun, then the chairman of the academy, at work on an entombment, surrounded by classical busts and figurines scattered upon the floor and table within the picture. Le Brun, impressed by Largillière's portrait, accepted him to the academy. In 1690, Largillière was documented by the French Academy as a historical painter, which was a prominent artistic trend of the academy until the introduction of Édouard Manet.

In 1693, Largillière painted the Governor of Arras, Pierre de Montesquiou, to celebrate his promotion to brigadier in 1691.

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

In 1709, Largillière painted the royal family portrait of The Family of Louis XIV. This portrait shows King Louis XIV, Madame de Ventadour (governess of the children of the Duke of Burgundy), the 3-year old Louis, Duke of Brittany (1707–1712), Louis, Grand Dauphin and Louis, Duke of Burgundy, future dauphin. The King displays a sense of slight uneasiness unlike the other figures especially. In the painting, Largillière used the Renaissance technique of structured disposition.

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


Later career


Self-portrait of Nicolas de Largillierre.
Engraving by François Chereau (1715).
Study of hands
(Musée du Louvre)

Towards the end of his life, Largillière painted a repetition of anonymous male portraits of Parisian nobles. One example was painted in 1710, of a man standing with spread fingers that conceal a letter held in the other hand. Another portrait from about 1715 shows a frontal three quarter view of a man dressed in similar clothes and wig with a Doric column in the background.

In 1714, Largillière painted King Augustus II of Poland. Largillière also painted the artist Jacques-Antoine Arlaud in a red robe in a similar fashion to Largillière’s portrait of the painter Charles Le Brun, as well as the sculptor Nicolas Couston. Around the next year, Largillière painted The Study of Different Types of Hands, which currently resides in the Louvre.

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

The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem was a landscape painting that Largillière painted in 1720.

Largillière made his last self-portrait in 1725. This portrait displays the artist at his easel staring toward the audience.

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

Death

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

Legacy

The Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford), the Fitzwilliam Museum (University of Cambridge), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Louvre, the 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), the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit) are among the public collections holding works by Nicolas de Largillière.

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

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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