Jean-Marc Nattier belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Jean-Marc Nattier as French painter (1685-1766).
Jean-Marc Nattier was born at Paris in 1685. His recorded nationality is France.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter and portraitist.
His recorded movement is rococo.
Among his best-known works are Louis-Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre and Perseus with Minerva Showing the Head of Medusa. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jean-Marc Nattier died in 1766, aged 81. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Louis-Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre
- Notable work: Perseus with Minerva Showing the Head of Medusa
- Movement: Rococo
