Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels (1682 – 24 March 1727) was a

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engraver, wife of the King's engraver

Nicolas-Henri Tardieu Nicolas-Henri Tardieu, called the "Tardieu the elder", (18 January 1674 - 27 January 1749) was a prominent French engraver, known for his sensitive reproductions of Antoine Watteau's paintings. He was appointed ''graveur du roi'' (King's Engraver) ...

Biography

Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels was one of three daughters of the Dutch bookseller Daniel Horthemels (c. 1650-1691) and his wife Marie Cellier (b. 1656), from Saint-Maurice, to the southeast of Paris. The family converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism, and became followers of the theologian

Cornelius Jansen Cornelius Jansen (, ; Latinized name Cornelius Jansenius; also Corneille Jansen; 28 October 1585 – 6 May 1638) was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism. Biography He wa ...

. Marie-Anne had at least five siblings. Her sister

Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, or Louise-Madeleine Hortemels, also called Magdeleine Horthemels (1686 – 2 October 1767), was a French engraver, the mother of Charles-Nicolas Cochin. She is also sometimes credited under her married name of Louis ...

was an active reproductive engraver who married

Charles-Nicolas Cochin Charles-Nicolas Cochin (22 February 1715 – 29 April 1790) was a French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic. To distinguish him from his father of the same name, he is variously called Charles-Nicolas Cochin le Jeune (the Younger), Cha ...

, ''graveur du roi''. Marie-Nicole married

Alexis Simon Belle Alexis Simon Belle (12 January 1674 – 21 November 1734) was a French portrait painter, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility. As a portrait artist, Belle's style followed that of his master François de Troy, Hyacinthe R ...

, ''peintre ordinaire du roi''. Her brothers Daniel and Denys continued in the bookselling trade, while Frédéric Horthemels was also an engraver. Marie-Anne's first marriage was to the pastry-maker Germain Le Coq, who had worked for King

Louis XIV of France , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Versa ...

(1638–1715) and for the Duchess of Burgundy. They married around 1705, and Germain died around 1710. They had at least one son, Germain-Jacques Lecocq. At the age of thirty, on 20 April 1712 she married again, to

. They had five children: Louis-Nicolas, Jacques-Nicolas, Pierre-Denis, Marie-Perrette and Marie Madelaine.

Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu, called "Tardieu fils" or "Tardieu the younger", (2 September 1716 – 9 July 1791) was a French engraver. Biography Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu was born on 2 September 1716 in Paris. He was the son of Marie-Anne Horthemels ...

was born on 2 September 1716 in Paris. He was also to become a well-known engraver. Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels died on 24 March 1727 at the age of 45.

Work

Marie-Anne had a talent for engraving, and is known for her portraits of Cardinal de Bissy,

Cardinal de Rohan Louis René Édouard de Rohan known as Cardinal de Rohan (25 September 1734 – 16 February 1803), ''prince de Rohan-Guéméné'', was a French Bishop of Strasbourg, politician, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and cadet of the Rohan f ...

and the Regent

Philippe II, Duke of Orléans Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (Philippe Charles; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723), was a French prince, soldier, and statesman who served as Regent of the Kingdom of France from 1715 to 1723. He is referred to in French as ''le Régent''. ...

. The

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

has an engraved portrait of

James Francis Edward Stuart James Francis Edward Stuart (10 June 16881 January 1766), nicknamed the Old Pretender by Whigs, was the son of King James II and VII of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his second wife, Mary of Modena. He was Prince of Wales from ...

, the Old Pretender, after a painting by Alexis Simon Belle, dated 1720. The portrait was engraved by "MM. Horthemels", and is thought to be her work. File:Armand Gaston, comte de Rohan by Marie Anne Horthemels after Hyacinthe Rigaud.jpg,

Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan Armand de Rohan (Armand Gaston Maximilien; 26 June 1674 – 19 July 1749) was a French churchman and politician. He became Bishop of Strasbourg in 1704, Cardinal in 1712 then Grand Almoner of France in 1713 and member of the regency council i ...

by Marie Anne Horthemels after

Hyacinthe Rigaud Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra (; 18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743), known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud (), was a Catalan-French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility. Biography Rigaud ...

File:Armand-Gaston-Maximilien de Rohan.jpg, Portrait of Armand-Gaston-Maximilien de Rohan by Hyacinthe Rigaud File:Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans by Marie Anne Horthemels after Hyacinthe Rigaud.jpg,

Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine Princess Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (german: Prinzessin Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz), (french: Princesse Élisabeth-Charlotte du Palatinat); known as Liselotte von der Pfalz, 27 May 1652 – 8 December 1722) was a German m ...

(1652-1722) by Marie Anne Horthemels after Hyacinthe Rigaud File:Portrait of Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans (Rigaud, 1713).jpg, Portrait of Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (1652-1722), Duchess of Orléans by Hyacinthe Rigaud File:Philippe - Duc d'Orléans by Marie Anne Horthemels after Jean-Baptiste Santerre.jpg,

after

Jean-Baptiste Santerre Jean-Baptiste Santerre (23 March 1651 – 21 November 1717) was a French painter and draughtsman of the Style Louis XIV, known for his history paintings, portraits, and portrait-like Genre painting, genre subjects. Considerably influenced by Ital ...

File:Portrait of Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans in armour by Jean-Baptiste Santerre.png, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans by Jean-Baptiste Santerre

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