id: 122347 accession number: 1942.643 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.643 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:06.234000 Portrait of a Woman as Diana, 1752. Jean-Marc Nattier (French, 1685–1766). Oil on canvas; framed: 127.5 x 107.5 x 10 cm (50 3/16 x 42 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 100.4 x 79.5 cm (39 1/2 x 31 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.643 title: Portrait of a Woman as Diana title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1752 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1752 current location: creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean-Marc Nattier (French, 1685–1766) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 127.5 x 107.5 x 10 cm (50 3/16 x 42 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 100.4 x 79.5 cm (39 1/2 x 31 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: Nattier P.x. / 1752 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). title: Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection opening date: 1942-11-12T04:00:00 Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943). title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). title: France in the 18th Century opening date: 1968-01-05T05:00:00 France in the 18th Century. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (January 5-March 3, 1968). title: Jean Marc Nattier (1685-1766) opening date: 1999-10-25T00:00:00 Jean Marc Nattier (1685-1766). Musée National du Château de Versailles et de Trianon, France (October 25, 1999-January 30, 2000). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * C.M.A, 1934: "Art of the XVII and XVIIIth centuries".
C.M.A., 1936: "20th Anniversary Exhibition," cat. no. 62.
C.M.A, 1942: "Exhibition of the John L Severance Collection", cat. no. 11, pl. VIII.
New York, Wildenstein &Co., Nov. 7-Dec. 15, 1951: "Jubillee Exhibition", (Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Firm's Establishment in N.Y.City.).
CMA, Oct. 1-Nov 10, 1963: "Style, Truth, and the Portrait", cat. no. 54, repr..
Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 5 to March 3, 1968, "France in the 18th Century." cat. no. 498.
Versailles, France: Musée National du Château de Versailles et de Trianon (10/25/99 - 1/30/00) "Jean Marc Nattier (1685-1766)" exh. cat. no. 69, pp 244-246. --- PROVENANCE Comte de Pimodan (probably Georges Pimodan [1822-1860]), Paris date: Before 1860 footnotes: citations: Madame Dhainaut date: Possibly until 19130 footnotes: * citations: (Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY, sold to John L. Severance) date: By 1930 footnotes: citations: John L. Severance [1863-1936], Cleveland, OH, upon his death, held in trust by the estate date: 1930-1936 footnotes: citations: Estate of John L. Severance, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1936-1942 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Bequest of John L. Severance date: 1942- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The sitter was once thought to be King Louis XV’s daughter Henriette or his mistress Madame de Pompadour. Today, her identity is unknown. digital description: wall description: For many years, this sitter was identified as Madame de Pompadour, but she bears little resemblance to this pivotal figure in French art and politics of the mid 1700s. Nattier specialized in portraits of women in mythological guises—in this case, the bow, quiver, and leopard skin, all attributes of Diana, goddess of the hunt. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS
Salmon, Xavier. Jean Marc Nattier: 1685-1766. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1999.
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Joseph Baillio, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Feb. 18. 2014, in CMA curatorial file.
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Renard, Philippe, and Jean-Marc Nattier. Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766): un artiste parisien à la cour de Louis XV. Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau: Monelle Hayot, 1999.
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Salmon, Xavier. Jean Marc Nattier: 1685-1766. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1999.



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Joseph Baillio, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Feb. 18. 2014, in CMA curatorial file.



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Salmon, Xavier. Jean Marc Nattier: 1685-1766. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1999.



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Joseph Baillio, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Feb. 18, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.



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Salmon, Xavier. Jean Marc Nattier: 1685-1766. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1999.
page number: url: Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. page number: Reproduced: p. [20], Plate VIII, cat. no. 11; Mention: p. 22, cat. no. 11 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n26 Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 30 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n38 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 136 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n160 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 136 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n160 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 179 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n199 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 102; Reproduced: p. 103 url: Saisselin, Rémy G. The Enlightenment against the Baroque: Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. page number: Reproduced: Book Jacket url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.643/1942.643_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.643/1942.643_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.643/1942.643_full.tif