Nicolas de Largillière

Nicolas de Largillierre or of Largillière (October 10th 1656 - December 5th 1746) is a painter French.

Its life

Born with Paris, Largillierre is wire of a merchant hatter. It passes its childhood to Antwerp where its family moved whereas it was three years old. It is also it which it begins its training of painter in the workshop of Antoine Goubeau starting from 1668. It is received Master with the Guildes of Saint-Luc of the city in 1674.

It then accomplishes a voyage in England of 1675 with 1679 where it is noticed by the king Charles Ier. It will go back there in 1685, time to carry out a portrait of its successor, Jacques II.

Returned to France, it becomes starting from 1689 one of the painters more asked and it alternates the official orders for ex-votos or allegories with the portraits of the nobility and the upper middle classes.

He marries in 1699 Marguerite-Elisabeth Forest and they will have two girls and a son.

Its talent enables him to climb the levels of the hierarchy of the royal Académie of painting and sculpture, or it is allowed on March 30th 1686. It will pass from member to the position of director in 1736. He will resign about it in 1743 and he will die out has Paris at the 90 years age.

Its work

Largillierre was a painter with the multiple talents and it was at ease as well with the dead natural , as with the historical tables, the landscapes or the portraits. Its technical control allowing him to play with the matters, the colors and the lights without making a cold exercise of it. Its portraits always keep a life and a sensitivity which do of him one of the great painters of the reign of Louis XIV and of the Régence.

Forgotten at the expense of rival and friendly sound Hyacinthe Stone which was the appointed painter of the nobility, Largillierre deserves to be redécouvert and to be seen allotting the place which it deserves in French art.

Works

  • the Family Stopped , (1685), Musée of the Hospital, Castle-Thierry
  • Portrait of Charles Le Brun , (1686), part of reception to the royal Académie of painting and sculpture, Musée of Louvre, Paris
  • beautiful Of Strasbourg the , (C. 1703), Musée of the Art schools of Strasbourg
  • Autoportrait in behavior of workshop , (1707), sold 514.250 € in June 2004.
  • Self-portrait , (1711), museum of the Castle of Versailles
  • Portrait of the Countess of Noirmont as a Diane , (1715), particular collection.

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