Nicolas de Largillierre, Portrait de famille, formerly wrongly called :
Le peintre, sa femme et sa fille, c. 1720-1730, oil on canvas,
1.49x2m, Paris, Musée du Louvre.
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Nicolas de Largillierre: October 10, 1656, Paris, Kingdom of France - March 20, 1746 (age 89), Paris, Kingdom of France.
Nicolas de Largillierre began his training as a painter in 1668 in Antwerp in the studio of Antoine Goubeau (1616-1698). Between 1675 and 1679, he worked at the court of the King of England as assistant to the painter Peter Lely (1618-1680), then returned to Paris in 1679. From 1689, he received recognition for his work and married Marie-Élisabeth Forest (or Marguerite-Elisabeth), daughter of his colleague Jean Forest, with whom he had 3 children: Élisabeth-Marguerite born in 1701, Marguerite-Elisabeth born in 1703 and Nicolas born in 1704. He died in Paris in 1746 at the age of 89 after a partial paralysis.