Jean-Marc Nattier · 1685–1766
Jean-Marc Nattier
Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766) was an 18th-century French portrait painter. He made the costume portrait, in which noblewomen appear as mythological or allegorical goddesses, fashionable, and painted the daughters of Louis XV.
Backed by the patronage of noblewomen in high society, Jean-Marc Nattier painted them as mythological or allegorical goddesses. He made this form, the so-called costume portrait, fashionable. He was also welcomed by the French royal family and worked as painter to the daughters of Louis XV.
In later years he was attacked by the critic Denis Diderot, a man of strict taste, who accused him of painting with rouge and powder. Yet the strong works he painted in this period are full of fulfilled stylistic beauty and delicate sensibility, in which one can recognize his talent as a portraitist of women in an elegant Rococo taste. In Japan, Marquise de Ferté-Imbault is held.
Jean-Marc Nattier was born on March 17, 1685 and died on November 7, 1766.
