The Countess de Brac as Aurora

1741

Jean Marc Nattier French, 1685-1766

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Fashionable Living, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Countess de Brac as Aurora

Artwork Date 1741

Artist Jean Marc Nattier

Life Dates 1685-1766

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 57 1/2 × 45 inches (146.1 × 114.3 cm) Framed: 69 × 56 3/8 × 4 3/4 inches (175.3 × 143.2 × 12.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. Fisher

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 68.304

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Signed Signed, lower center: Nattier Pinxit | 1741,

Provenance

by 1925, Count Henri de Castellane (Paris, France);
Galerie Cailleux (Paris, France);
1928, Howard Young (New York, New York, USA);
possibly before 1930, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. Fisher (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1968-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Goncourt, J., and E. de. La Duchesse de Châteauroux et ses soeurs. Paris, 1879, pp. 271-272.

Engerand, F. "Nattier, peintre des favorites de Louis XV." La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne (November 1897): pp. 327-334; p. 329; (December 1897): p. 333 (ill.) p. 333 [engraving by Maloeuvre].

Nolhac, P. de. J.-M. Nattier peintre de la cour de Louis XV. Paris, 1905, pp. 62-63, 152, (ill.) [probably after this painting, then in collection of comte Primoli]; Reprint, 1925, pp. 113, 270.

Nolhac, P. de. "Un problème iconographique. Le portrait de la marquise de Vintimille." La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne (July-August 1928): pp. 85-88 (ill.).

Huard, G. "Nattier, 1685 à 1766." In Dimier, L., les Peintres français du XVIIIe siècle. Histoire des vies et catalogue des oeuvres, vol. 2. Paris and Brussels, 1930, p. 128, no. 127.

Heil, W. "Lawrence P. Fisher Collection-Detroit." Antiquarian 15 (December 1930): p. 49 (ill.); p. 110.

Salmon, Xavier. "Le musée idéal." Dossier de l'art (November 1999): pp. 62-71, no. 62; p. 63 (ill.).

Salmon, Xavier. Jean-Marc Nattier 1685-1766. Exh. cat., Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. Versailles, 2000, pp. 132-134, no. 29; p. 133 (color ill.).

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Jean Marc Nattier, The Countess de Brac as Aurora, 1741, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. Fisher, 68.304.