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    Nicolas de Largillière (French: [nikɔla də laʁʒijiɛʁ]; baptised 10 October 1656 – 20 March 1746) was a French painter and draughtsman. Largillière was...
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    de Sève is a 1729 oil painting on canvas by Nicolas de Largillière. It is held at the Timken Museum of Art, in San Diego. "Portrait of Marguerite de Sève...
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    La Belle Strasbourgeoise (category Paintings by Nicolas de Largillière)
    Beautiful Strasbourg Woman) is a 1703 painting by the French painter Nicolas de Largillière. It is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its...
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    Portrait of Barthélemy-Jean-Claude Pupil (category Paintings by Nicolas de Largillière)
    Barthélemy-Jean-Claude Pupil is a 1729 oil painting on canvas by Nicolas de Largillière. It is held at the collection of the Timken Museum of Art, in San...
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    of the past were French rococo artists such as Antoine Watteau, Nicolas de Largillière, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and François Boucher. His favorite poet...
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    Hyacinthe Rigaud (category Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture)
    of directeur Louis de Boullogne on 28 November 1733, Rigaud proposed that the four rectors of the Académie, Nicolas de Largillière, Claude-Guy Hallé,...
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    Guillaume Coustou the Elder (category Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture)
    Hallé, and Nicolas de Largillière Geese 2007, p. 311. Le Petit Robert des Noms Propres (2010) de Montaiglon, Anatole, ed. (1883). Procès-Verbaux de l’Académie...
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  • François Girardon (1628–1715) Charles de la Fosse (1636–1716) Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720) Nicolas de Largillière (1656–1746) Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743)...
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    portraiture, and he became a pupil and perhaps a collaborator of Nicolas de Largillière from 1707 to 1712. He graduated at only 22 years of age, on 21 May 1708...
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    Frontispiece Sotheby's: Nicolas de Largillièrre: Portrait of the Baron de Besenval (1671–1736) and Portrait of the Baronne de Besenval (1684–1761), the...
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  • book De Veritate (1624). Lord Herbert, like his contemporary Descartes, searched for the foundations of knowledge. The first two-thirds of his book De Veritate...
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    he would like to be." When La Bruyère's Caractères appeared in 1688, Nicolas de Malézieu predicted at once, that it would bring "bien des lecteurs et...
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    Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer, 1658–1660 La Belle Strasbourgeoise, Nicolas de Largillière, 1703 The Toilet of Venus, François Boucher, 1751 The Blue Boy,...
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    his Doutes sur le système physique des causes occasionnelles (against Nicolas Malebranche) appeared shortly afterwards. He remained influential in his...
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    Louisa Maria Stuart (category Burials at Val-de-Grâce (church))
    the National Portrait Gallery is a portrait painted in 1695 by Nicolas de Largillière of Louisa Maria with her brother James Francis Edward. This was...
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    history by Philippe de Champaigne, Pierre Mignard, Laurent de La Hyre, Charles Le Brun, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Nicolas de Largillière, Hyacinthe Rigaud...
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    March 30 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746) March 31 Giovanni Batista Bussi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1726) Juan Andrés de Ustariz,...
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    government of Paris commissioned a painting commemorating the event by Nicolas de Largillière. According to Sluhovsky, "An entire day of communal mobilization...
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    William and Mary were: Quarterly, I and IV Grandquarterly, Azure three fleurs-de-lis Or (for France) and Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for...
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    Scottish or Irish. In 1729 she sat for her portrait, painted by Nicolas de Largillière. Sir Robert Throckmorton, 4th Baronet, commissioned four paintings...
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  • Marie Courtois (c.1655–1703), miniature painter Nicolas de Largillière (1656–1746), painter Nicolas Coustou (1658–1733), sculptor Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743)...
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    portrayed by Hyacinthe Rigaud. Nicolas de Largillière painted him at the age of 73, and a third portrait is attributed to François de Troy (see below). Two contemporary...
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  • Dorothée Massé-Godequin (1680) Louis de Boullogne (1681) Catherine Perrot (1682) Nicolas de Largillière (1686) Roger de Piles (1699) Jean-Marc Nattier (1703)...
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    by the famous calligraphist Nicolas Jarry in a magnificent manuscript, on each page of which was a flower painted by Nicolas Robert, and was presented to...
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    centuries Queen Elizabeth I, painted in 1588 Nicolas de Vermont Portrait of men wearing wigs by Nicolas de Largillière, 17th century Korean traditional wig (gache)...
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    entrance stairways on either side are decorated with portraits by Nicolas de Largillière. The ceiling mural is The Apotheosis of the California Soldier by...
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    Charles Le Brun (category Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture)
    was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and was influenced by Nicolas Poussin. Born in Paris, Le Brun attracted the notice of Chancellor Séguier...
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    Claude-Guy Hallé (category Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture)
    Louis de Boullogne on 28 November 1733, the painter Hyacinthe Rigaud proposed that the four rectors of the Académie, Hallé, Nicolas de Largillière, Guillaume...
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  • translation of the Directorium Inquisitorum by Nicolás Aymerich and also adding data from the work by Luís de Páramo. Roderich Usher, a character in Edgar...
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    Bonnot de Condillac, Nicolas de Condorcet, Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond D'Alembert, Olympe de Gouges, Vincent de Gournay, D'Holbach, Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle...
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