Nanine Vallain

Portrait of Louis-Antoine-Henry de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien, c. 1788, in the Musée Condé

Nanine Vallain (1767–1815) was a French painter. She was sometimes known as Jeanne-Louise Vallain or Madame Piètre.

Vallain was a native of Paris, born into the family of a master scribe. She took lessons in painting and drawing with Jacques-Louis David and Joseph-Benoît Suvée. She first showed her work in 1785, exhibiting a drawing of a young draftsman at the annual exhibit at the place Dauphine. She returned there in 1787 and 1788, and in 1791 sent four paintings to the final Exposition de la Jeunesse. Vallain married Barthèlemy Piètre in 1793. That same year she joined the Commune générale des arts during the brief window of time it allowed women to join. It was at this time that she produced her best-known work, an allegory of Liberty which hung in the headquarters of the Jacobins until its closing in 1794; the painting is today in the Musée de la Révolution française. Vallain began participating in the salons at the Louvre in 1793, continuing until 1810. But her work received little attention, and by 1832 was forgotten; she is not listed in Charles Gabet's 1832 dictionary of French artists of the period. Vallain specialized in portraits, but also painted genre scenes, historical works, biblical scenes, and allegories.[1] A Portrait of a Lady, of c. 1804, is currently held by the National Gallery of Ireland.[2] Her Portrait of Louis-Antoine-Henry de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien, dating to around 1788, is in the Musée Condé,[3] while a Portrait of a Young Girl with a Lamb from 1788 is held by the Musée Cognacq-Jay.[1] Her well-known depiction of Liberty is now owned by the Louvre.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. (2012). Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections. London: Scala Publishers Limited. ISBN 9781857597431.
  2. ↑ "Portrait of a Lady". Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Guy de Laporte (2004). Chasse à courre, chasse de cour: fastes de la vénerie princière à Chantilly au temps des Condés et des Orléans, 1659–1910. Renaissance Du Livre. pp. 150–. ISBN 978-2-8046-0908-5.
  4. ↑ "Joconde - catalogue - dictionnaires". www.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
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