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| Marie-Madeleine Balletti, known as Manon Balletti, later the wife of Jacques-François Blondel, 1757. (Previously the fiancée of Casanova.) |
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| Marie Henriette, comtesse d'Andlau, née de Polastron, 1743. |
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| Barbara Luigia Elisabetta D'Adda, contessa di Bronno, 1747. |
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| A Woman with a Blue Mantle, 1742. |
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| Portrait of a Lady, previously identified as the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, date unknown. |
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| Madame de La Porte, 1754. (The lady appears to be the wife of a fellow artist.) |
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| Marie-Charlotte, marquise de Belestat, née de Châteaurenaud, 1755. |
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| Mademoiselle Marsollier, 1757. |
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| Marie-Charlotte, marquise de Clermont-Gallerande, née de Bragelongne, 1740. |
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| Marie Françoise de La Cropte de St. Abre, marquise d'Argence, 1744. (Alright, perhaps her drapery is more gray than blue...? |
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| Éléonore Louise Le Gendre de Berville, later marquise du Hallay-Coëtquen, 1751. (And, alright, this drapery is rather more green than blue... ) |
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| (... and she's not so much draped with it, as she is clutching at it... but isn't she pretty...? She would have been only 11 when this was painted.) |
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| Portrait of a Woman, said to be the marquise Perrin de Cypierre, 1753. |
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* Pedantic aside: Nattier painted plenty of other portraits of ladies emerging from floating swathes of blue silk drapery, but for this group I only chose those in which the model was otherwise attired in actual - rather than allegorical or pointedly "artistic" - dress.
Interestingly (to me at any rate) Elsie de Wolfe often referred to a "Nattier Blue", so then at the first 2 or 3 images that would manifest itself as a greyed blue with pinkish undertones. Then the whole theory collapses with all the variations in images that followed--cold blues, green blues, silvery blues etc some of which were likely affected by ageing varnish. But enough of my pedantry! This was a charming post.
ReplyDeleteAh, but your "pedantry" warms my equally (at least) pedantic heart! Et merci, comme toujours. : )
DeleteCharming...thats all that can be said.
ReplyDeleteI like seeing the same sort of 'natural' posies on the top of each lady's head. Really charming.
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