Jean Nocret

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Jean Nocret on a posthumous portrait of his son Jean-Charles Nocret (1674), Versailles Palace

Jean Nocret (born October 26, 1615 in Nancy , † November 12, 1672 in Paris ) was a French painter who is best known for his portraits of the French royal family of the Bourbons . His main works in the former castles of Saint-Cloud and the Tuileries have not been preserved. Many portraits of uncertain authorship are attributed to him.

biography

Nocret was a student of Jean Le Clerc in Nancy until his death in 1633. In the mid-1630s he went to Rome, where he met Nicolas Poussin and made copies for Poussin's patron Paul Fréart de Chantelou . Poussin thought Nocret presumptuous and complained that he left his works unfinished when he received better offers.

Nocret returned to Paris in 1644. He married Antoinette Vuyet, with whom he had several children: Jean-Baptiste (1647), Jean-Charles (1648–1719), Jean-Simon (1649), Marie (1650) and Antoinette-Geneviève (1651). Jean Charles also became a painter.

Jean Nocret: Group portrait of Louis XIV and his family as the gods of Olympus , 1670. The king (right) embodies Apollo (the sitters can be identified on Wikimedia Commons).

In Paris he worked near Cardinal Jules Mazarin , from whom he received orders. In December 1649, Nocret became the official painter of the young Louis XIV ( premier peintre du roi ) and of his uncle Gaston d'Orléans ( intendant et valet de chambre de Monsieur ). In 1657 he accompanied the Bishop of Comminges Gilbert de Choiseul du Plessis-Praslin on a diplomatic mission to Portugal , where he made portraits of the royal family (portraits of the Infants Catarina de Bragança and Dom Pedro and the King Dom Afonso VI ).

In 1660 he was back in Paris. Subsequently he also became court painter to Philippe I. de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , the king's brother, and worked on the interior decorations of the castle of Saint-Cloud (scenes from Greek mythology ). The castle was destroyed in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. His best-known work, Louis XIV and his family as the gods of Olympus (1670, see illustration) was originally created for the antechamber of the Duke of Orléans in Saint-Cloud. It is now in the Palace of Versailles .

In 1663 he was accepted into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture for his painting The Repentance of Saint Peter (lost) .

Between 1666 and 1669, under the direction of Charles Le Brun , he decorated the apartments of Queen Maria Teresa of Spain in the Tuileries . Most of the scenes revolved around the goddess Minerva , whom Nocret gave the features of queen. This decor also disappeared during the Franco-Prussian War when the Tuileries Palace burned down in 1871.

François de Bourbon, duc de Beaufort (Baltimore Museum of Art)

Works (selection)

Portraits
Attributed works
  • Fame presents France with the portrait of Louis XIV (Saint-Quentin, Musée Antoine Lécuyer, sometimes attributed to Louis-Ferdinand Elle ),
  • Henriette d'Angleterre , duchesse d'Orléans (Palace of Versailles)
  • Portrait of Anne d'Autriche (Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts),
  • Louis XIV as a Roman general (around 1670, Sceaux , Musée de l'Île-de-France),
  • Portrait of Louis XIV ( Maisons-Laffitte Castle ; attribution definitely wrong, as it was not made until after 1680!).

literature

  • Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie, Louis Auvray: Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française . Volume 2, Paris 1885, p. 161 ( digitized version ).
  • Édouard Meaume: Jean Nocret, peintre lorrain , Grosjean-Maupin, Nancy 1886 ( digitized ).
  • Nocret, Jean . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 497-498 .
  • Tancred Borenius: Claude Lorrain and Jean Nocret . In: The Burlington magazine 77, 1940, pp. 71-72.
  • Emmanuel Benezit (founder); Jacques Busse (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Nouvelle édition, entièrement réfondue [= 4th edition]. Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3020-6 , Volume 10, p. 244.
  • Renate Treydel: Nocret, Jean . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 92, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023258-5 , p. 468.

Web links

Commons : Jean Nocret  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There is no evidence here.
  2. ^ CV at the Museo del Prado.
personal data
SURNAME Nocret, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1615
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy , France
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1672
Place of death Paris , France