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Ad Code: 2
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from Auction House Records.
PORTRAIT OF MARIE-GENEVIÈVE BOUDREY, REPRESENTED AS A MUSE
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Jean-Marc Nattier was born in Paris, France in 1685, the son of a painter, his mother, miniaturist Marie Courtois, and the younger brother of a painter. Under the protection of Louis XIV, he began to make drawings of the Rubens Gallery of the Luxembourg. Offered a brilliant position in Rome, he preferred to remain in Paris, but in 1715 he was summoned to Amsterdam where he painted the Czar and Czarina of Russia, as well as Peter the Great. They wanted to take him to their country, bu (showing 500 of 1048 characters). |
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