Artists

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  Mademoiselle de Clermont "en Sultane" $AU 300.44 ~ 1,312.28
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  Marie Adelaide of France as Diana $AU 243.58 ~ 1,009.63
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  Comtesse Tessin $AU 525.61

Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 Paris-1766 Paris) received his first instruction in painting from his father, the portrait and history painter Marc Nattier. Afterward, young Nattier presumably became the pupil of Jean Jouvenet. Starting in 1710 he and his father worked together to complete etchings based on the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens, Charles Le Brun, and other old masters, and in 1717 the Czar Peter the Great (1682-1825) offered Nattier a position at the court of St. Petersburg; however, the painter turned it down. The following year Nattier was accepted into the Paris Academy as a painter d'histoire ("history painter"), yet his eventual fame did not derive from his numerous impressive and brilliantly executed portraits of Parisian society reveal him to be one of the leading portraitists of the era of Louis XV (1715-1774). Among Nattier's works are Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar, 1711, Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Battle at Potava, 1717, Pushkin Museum of the Fine Arts, Moscow; and Duchess de Chaulnes as Hebe, 1744, Musee du Louvre, Paris.