Stadtholder, Prince Frederic Henry; formerly in Düsseldorf Gallery. Engraved by Hess.—Vosmaer, 201, 473; Smith, vii. 24.
By Girolamo Romanino, National Gallery, London; wood, altarpiece in five compartments, centre, H. 8 ft. 7 in. × 3 ft. 9 in. Jesus, lying on a white cloth on a knoll, is adored by the kneeling Virgin; Joseph leans on his staff, and two boy angels hover in the air. On sides, SS. Filippo Benizzio and Gaudioso above, and SS. Alexander and Jerome below. Painted in 1525 for S. Alessandro, Brescia, whence taken by one of the Counts Avveroldi; bought of Counts Angelo and Ettore Avveroldi in 1857 for £804.—Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 351; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 387; Richter, 95, 106.
By Titian, formerly in S. Marco, Venice. Painted about 1563; destroyed by fire from a candle on the altar, after morning mass, Jan. 19, 1580.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 337.
NATOIRE, CHARLES JOSEPH, born
at Nîmes, March
3, 1700, died at
Castel Gandolfo,
Aug. 29, 1777.
French school;
history painter,
pupil of Galloche
and Lemoyne.
Won the grand
prix de Rome in
1721, and later
in Rome the 1st prize of the Academy of
St. Luke. Became member of the Academy
(1734), professor (1737), director of the
French Academy at Rome (1751), which
post he resigned in 1774. Works: Manoah
offering Sacrifice to the Lord (1721), École
des Beaux Arts, Paris; Moses with the Decalogue;
Venus asking Arms of Vulcan
(1734), Three Graces, Juno, Triumph of
Bacchus, Louvre, Paris; Youth and Virtue
presenting two Princesses to France, Dauphin
Louis de France (2), Versailles Museum;
Allegory on Birth of a Princess, Dauphin
Louis (son of Louis XV.), Telemachus
on the Isle of Calypso, Bacchus and Ariadne,
Palais de Trianon; Sancho's Repast in the
Woods, and eight other scenes from Don
Quixote, Hagar in the Desert, Flora, Compiègne
Museum; Venus and Vulcan, Venus
and Æneas, Bordeaux Museum; Magdalen,
Dijon Museum; Christ on the Cross, St.
Jerome, Cleopatra at Tarsus, Marseilles Museum;
Venus asking Arms of Vulcan, Montpellier
Museum; Death of Dido, Nantes
Museum; Solemn Entry into Orléans of
Monseigneur Nicolas Joseph de Paris in
1733 (1745), Bishop's Palace, Orléans;
Sketch of same (1743), Portrait of Monseigneur
de Paris (1746), useum , ib.; St. Stephen
preaching the Gospel, Rennes Museum;
Warrior of Middle Ages, Rouen
Museum; Mercury and Cupid, Telemachus
and Mentor, France accompanied by Power
and Fame, Cupid scattering Flowers, Cupid
and the Nymph Eucharis, Jupiter and Io,
Perseus delivering Andromeda, Danaë and
Jupiter, Ganymede carried off by Jupiter's
Eagle, Troyes Museum; Goddess with Attributes
of Venus, Flora and Leda, Valenciennes
Museum; Bacchus and Ariadne,
Hermitage, St.
Petersburg;
Portrait of
himself, Uffizi, Florence.—Bellier, ii. 150;
Jal, 967; Ch. Blanc, École française; Villot,
Cat. Louvre.
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NATTIER, JEAN MARC, born in Paris, March 17, 1685, died there, Nov. 7, 1766. French school; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Marc Nattier (1642-1705). Won the first prize of the Academy in 1700. Was employed to copy the Rubens pictures in the Luxembourg to be engraved. Member Academy in 1718, adjunct professor in 1746, and professor in 1752. In 1715 he painted, at Amsterdam, Peter the Great, his wife Catharine I., and many of his courtiers; also a picture of the Battle of Pultowa, for the Czar. Associate member of the Copenhagen Academy. Works: Magdalen in a Grotto, Louvre; Marie Leczinska, Madame Henriette de France (1751, 1754), Madame Adélaîde, do. (1756), Madame Victoire (2),
