Female Portrait
Female portrait circa about 1690s by French Painter Nicolas de Largillierre (1656 – 1746), portriatist and draftsperson
This is a beautiful portrait of a lovely young lady in period dress, standing in a wooded area which may be a forest or a large garden, possibly in the fall as evening approaches.
In the background we can see some green illumination, just off the left side of her face where we see green and yellow trees, as well as some orange trees.
On her right are severay more trees of similar color to the ones on her right as well as a large red tree; and these help frame her in the piece.
Her hair is a greyish white with large blue ribbons weaved though it and it flows down her right shoulder and behind her.
She is wearing a lace ruffled white blouse, an orange embroidered dress and a blue jacket with a platinum colored inner lining that complements the platinum colored sleeves that are embellished with floral patterns in orange, white and black.
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Nicolas became known as one of Europe’s premier painters of portraits, historical paintings, and still life artwork during the late seventeenth century and the first four decades of the eighteenth century.
He was born in Paris in 1656 to a hat maker and merchant who moved with his family to Antwerp when Nicolas was three years of age.
When Nicolas was nine years old, he traveled for the first time to London, England in the company of an associate of his fathers; and after returning to Antwerp over a year later his artistic talent was recognized, and as a result he was apprenticed by his father to the Flemish Baroque Painter Antoni Goubau (1616 – 1698), a painter of bambocciate, genre scenes, and landscapes.
Being something of a prodigy, Nicolas was admitted to the painters’ Guild of Saint Luke in 1673 at the age of seventeen; then two years later mad another trip abroad to London, where he was employed as a restorer under the direction of the Italian Painter Antonio Verrio (1639 – 1707), at Windsor Castle; who brought him to the attention of King Charles II (1630 – 1685), who reigned from 1660 until his death in 1685.
Pinaagi sa 1679 at the age of 23 Nicloas had settled in Paris, France; specializing the Baroque style of portraiture that followed in the grand manner of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), and Peter Lely (1618-1680).
Then the Flemish Battle Painter Adam Frans van der Meulen (1631-32 – 1690) introduced him to Charles Le Brun (1619 1690), who was the First Painter to King Louis XIV (1638 – 1715) and who reigned from 1643 until his death in 1715; and who also was the director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
Upon his acceptance as a candidate for admission to the Académie, he agreed to execute as his diploma artwork, a large portrait of Le Brun, which he in 1686, which depicts him seated in his studio surrounded by the accoutrements of his art; and an oil study for The Second Conquest of Franche-Comté, one of the large decorations for the ceiling of Galerie des Glaces at Versailles.
Nicolas created a tremendous amount of artwork with some 1500 mga hulagway (currently being cataloged by Dominique Brême); which required hime to maintain a workshop with studio assistants, to whom he delegated the painting of costumes and minor accessories.
During his long and industrious and illustrious career, Nicolas de Largillierre served terms as a professor, rector, chancellor and director of the Académie royale; passing away at the age of ninety in 1746.
