Marie Courtois

Marie Courtois (c. 1655 13 October 1703) was a French miniature painter. She was a pupil of Le Brun. In 1675 she married Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter. They were the parents of the more famous portrait painter Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 – 1766), their second son. She died in Paris in 1703.

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This article incorporates text from the article "COURTOIS, Marie" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.


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