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The French painter Jean-Marc Nattier, born and died in Paris (1685–1766), is particularly known for his portraits of women, especially allegorical portraits in which court ladies take on the features of mythological figures. The son of the portraitist Marc Nattier and the miniaturist Marie Courtois, and brother of the painter Jean-Baptiste Nattier, he showed an early aptitude for art: at the age of fifteen, he won the Academy’s first prize for drawing.
Between 1700 and 1710, Louis XIV authorised him to draw and have engraved the twenty-four paintings by Rubens devoted to the History of Marie de’ Medici. Accepted as an agréé member of the Academy in 1713, Nattier became a member in 1718 after presenting a mythological painting: Perseus Turning Phineus to Stone, held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tours. Following the bankruptcy of Law’s system and the loss of a family lawsuit, he had no resources other than those derived from his talent and turned particularly to portraiture.
He became the official portraitist of the Orléans family, and then of the court of Louis XV in 1748; appointed professor at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1746, he continued his institutional career alongside his work as a painter. Mademoiselle de Clermont as a Sultana (1733), held at the Wallace Collection in London, exemplifies his allegorical portraits. Madame Victoire at the Age of Fifteen (1748), now held at the Château de Versailles, also bears witness to his work as a portraitist. Towards the end of his life, following the rejection of his application for a pension in 1754, he fell into great hardship and was taken in by his son-in-law, the painter Charles-Michel-Ange Challe.
This profile brings together identity references for Jean-Marc Nattier and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on canvas
Werkstatt oder Kopist des königlichen Kabinetts Bildnis von Louise-Élisabeth de France, Duchesse de Parme
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2024-06-12
Published result : 10000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 10000–15000
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Umkreis
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2014-05-16
Published result : 5500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2600
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Pastel
D’après Jean-Marc Nattier — Portrait de Madame Sophie de France
pastel
D'après
Catalogue period : 2025-09-22
After
Published result : 850 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Oil on canvas
Suiveur de Jean-Marc Nattier — Portrait du baron Pierre Victor de Besenval,
huile sur toile
suiveur de
Catalogue period : 2022-09-07 — 2022-09-21
Follower of
Published result : 8500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1500–2500
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Oil on canvas
Suiveur de Jean-Marc Nattier — Portrait d'une élégante en Diane,
huile sur toile
suiveur de
Catalogue period : 2021-05-26 — 2021-06-09
Follower of
Published result : 800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Oil on canvas
Kopie Portrait von Marie Sophie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne, Princesse de Beauvau
Öl auf Leinwand
Kopie
Catalogue period : 2020-03-27
Copy
Published result : 1500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1400
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Oil on canvas
Kopie des 18
Öl auf Leinwand
Attribution ou qualification signalée dans le catalogue
Catalogue period : 2016-06-17
Attribution recorded in catalogue
Published result : 11000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 10000–15000
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Oil on canvas
Suiveur de Jean-Marc Nattier — Portrait de Gabrielle Emilie de Tonnelier, marquise de Breteuil,
huile sur toile
suiveur de
Catalogue period : 2015-06-15
Follower of
Published result : 1500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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Oil on canvas
Kopie des 18
Öl auf Leinwand
Attribution ou qualification signalée dans le catalogue
Date to be documented
Attribution recorded in catalogue
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 15000–20000
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