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Jean-Baptiste Santerre (Magny-en-Vexin, 1651 - Paris 1717) - Portrait
Oil painting on canvas: 50x65cm antique frame: 70x85cm
Written expert opinion: Pr Emilio Negro
He was a French painter, draughtsman and teacher, member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Trained at the school of Bon Boullogne and François Lemaire, a portraitist, he worked mainly in Paris between 1666 and 1717. In Versailles, he founded a school for women artists. In 1698, he was accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In 1704, he became a member of the Academy as a history painter and presented the painting Susanna in the Bathroom, his most famous work. In 1709, on a royal commission, he created Santa Teresa in Ecstasy for the chapel of the Château de Versailles, reminiscent of Bernini's sculpture. He devoted himself mainly to the representation of genre subjects and Christian religion, and to the execution of portraits and nudes, for which he was mainly famous. A precursor of Jean-Marc Nattier in the genre of fantastic portraits, he created many sensual images of allegorical or familiar subjects, sensuality achieved largely with a porcelain complexion and rendered in a natural way with grey or cold tones, a style anticipating certain aspects of neoclassicism (Two Actresses (1699); Young Woman with a Veil, Portrait of a Woman (1701); Maria Adélaïde of Savoy, Duchess of Burgundy). The subjects of Santerre's works were often of Nordic origin: musicians, women who read letters, smokers and cooks. To these were added pilgrims, espagnolettes and women dressed in masks. Candlelight, inspired by Gerrit Dou and Godfried Schalcken, was another motif in his works. He was slandered and discredited for the sensual nature of his religiously inspired works.
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