Jean Nocret (December 1615/17, Nancy- November 1672, Paris) was a French painter who is best known for his portraits of the French royal family. Many portraits of uncertain origin have been attributed to him.
Jean Nocret (December 1615/17, Nancy- November 1672, Paris) was a French painter who is best known for his portraits of the French royal family. Many portraits of uncertain origin have been attributed to him.
He was a student of Jean LeClerc. Later, he traveled to Rome, where he met Nicolas Poussin and did some work for Poussin's patron, Paul Fréart de Chantelou. [1] Poussin, however, thought that Nocret was a pretentious young man and complained that he left his work unfinished because he had received better offers.
Nocret returned to Paris in 1644. Five years later, he managed to obtain an appointment as painter to King Louis XIV and Gaston, Duke of Orléans. He also served as the King's valet de chambre. In 1657, he accompanied the Bishop of Comminges on a diplomatic mission to Portugal, and executed portraits of the Portuguese Royal Family. [2] Back in Paris, in 1660, he was commissioned by the new Duke of Orléans to decorate the interiors of the Château de Saint-Cloud with scenes from Greek mythology. The Château was later destroyed, during the Franco-Prussian War. Three years later, his painting of "The Repentance of Saint Peter" earned him a place in the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. He became a Professor there in 1664. [1]
Between 1666 and 1669, he decorated the Queen's apartments at the Tuileries, under the direction of Charles Le Brun. These decorations also disappeared during the Franco-Prussian War, when the Tuileries were burned. Most of them depicted scenes relating to the goddess Minerva.
His son, Jean-Charles (1648-1719), was also a portraitist, but did history painting as well. After his father's death, he was called upon to decorate the Queen's apartments at Versailles. [1]
Nicolas Poussin was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors. He returned to Paris for a brief period to serve as First Painter to the King under Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, but soon returned to Rome and resumed his more traditional themes. In his later years he gave growing prominence to the landscape in his paintings. His work is characterized by clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. Until the 20th century he remained a major inspiration for such classically-oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne.
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"... the most beautiful place in the world, both in its layout and in its location. " - J. F. Blondel, Cours d'Architecture ..., 1773, volume 4, p. 132.
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