Pierre Gobert

Pierre Gobert ( born January 1, 1662 at Fontainebleau, † February 13, 1744 in Paris) was a French court painter, known for his portraits.

Pierre Gobert was the son of the sculptor Jean II Gobert. 1681 he married his cousin in Fontainebleau. In the following years he held may be in Munich, where he painted at the court ( Thoison ). After he had sought in vain for admission in 1686, he was admitted on 31 December 1701 the Royal Academy of Arts, after he had filed two portraits. In January 1724 he was elected to the Board of the Academy as a successor to the late M. Boyer. During the reign of Louis XIV and Louis XV. he was busy portraitist in particular of many high-ranking noble ladies of the court and their children. He knew his paintings with mythological references in the tradition of Pierre Mignard, but handed after Engerand not come close to Jean -Marc Nattier. Among the writers were, inter alia, the Prince of Condé, Tsar Peter I, Louis XV. , the Queen Mary Leszczyńska (which he in 1725 by White Castle in Alsace, where the former Polish king was living drove ), Louise -Elisabeth de Bourbon- Condé ( Princess of Conty ) Françoise Marie de Bourbon ( Duchess of Orleans) and the Duchess of Maine.

End of the 19th century he was already forget that many of his paintings in the collection of Versailles unknown or even other painters ( such as Jean -Baptiste van Loo ) were attributed. After Engerand he was like a professional portrait photographer forced into his studio to a high production of portraits, with some 60 copies of the same painting, made ​​some hasty and of poor quality. Such orders, he also took over as the years 1707-1709, as he did for the Duke Leopold of Lorraine portraits of his family in multiple copies and their production monitored.