NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERE (1656-1746) Self-portrait (1711) Oil on canvas (80 x 65 cm) Chateau de Versailles To enlarge the image, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab" Largillière painted several portraits of himself: in 1699 (Tours, Musee des Beaux-Arts), 1711 (Versailles, Chateau), 1724 (Montpellier, Musee Fabre) and 1729 (Florence, Uffizi). These works …
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A Goldsmith
FRENCH SCHOOL Portrait of a Goldsmith Oil on canvas (92 x 76 cm) Chateau de Versailles To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab" Despite the extremely high quality of this work, characterized by an uncompromising realism and an execution that reveals the hand of a virtuoso, the identities …
A Masterpiece
NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERE (1656-1746) Self-Portrait (c. 1726) Oil on canvas (80 x 64 cm) Musée Fabre, Montpellier To enlarge the picture; right-click on it, then "Open in a new tab" Largillière, a Parisian educated in Antwerp showed at an early age great aptitudes for painting and was apprenticed to Antoine Goubau (1616-1698). He became a …
An Officer and a Gentleman
NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERE (1656-1746) Portrait of an Officier, c. 1715 Oil on canvas (66 x 55 cm) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Unjustly neglected by art historians, particularly the Anglo-Americans, in favour of his contemporary and rival Hyacinthe Rigaud …
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