Lot n° 74
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JEAN-MARC NATTIER (Paris 1685-1766) - Lot 74
JEAN-MARC NATTIER (Paris 1685-1766)
Set of six family portraits: Mrs Brochier/Mrs Nattier/Mrs Toqué/Mrs Sophie/Ms Sophie/Ms Sophie-Nattier, wife of Mr Chale/Mr Nattier, son
Black and Bloodstone
46.4 x 60 cm dimensions of the montage, 14 x 11.5 cm each
Each vignette is titled on the montage
Annotated at the bottom centre: "Family of Mr Nattier/Professor of the Royal Academy of Painting"
Small stitching, slightly insulated
Old label on the back: "Copenhagen 1935 French art in the 18th century lender Mrs Tuffier /Nattier/Famille Nattier/n°19"
Double stamp: "Paris/Customs Exhibition"
Jean-Marc Nattier is 39 years old when he decides to get married. He married Marie-Madeleine de La Roche, 16 years old, on January 26, 1724. An outstanding harpsichordist, she "united in herself what talents, beauty, youth and graces can have that are seductive". She died in 1742.
They had four children.
Marie-Catherine-Pauline, born in 1725, married in 1747 with the portraitist Louis Tocqué, a student of her father's.
Jean-Frédéric-Marc, born in 1728, died accidentally while drowning in the Tiber in 1754 while studying at the Académie de France.
Charlotte-Claudine, born in 1730, married the lawyer and diplomat François-Philippe Brochier in 1754.
Madeleine-Sophie, born in 1734, married the painter Michel-Ange Challes in 1763. She died in 1814. In her will, she indicates "a small black and gold frame containing under glass six heads of the family drawn by my father (...), a large frame containing under glass eight heads of the family and friends (see Philippe Renard, "Nattier", 1999, ed. Monelle Hayot, p.166).
It is very likely that our set corresponds to the one mentioned first in Madeleine-Sophie Challes' inventory. Copies or replicas of some of them were put up for public sale in 2004 (Me Aguttes, December 7, 2004, n°11-12-14).
The drawings were made at different times, as shown in the two portraits of Madeleine-Sophie as a child and young wo
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