Pierre-Denis Martin (1663 – 1742) was a French

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

of historical subjects, battles, hunts, and architectural views, particularly of royal residences, such as the

Palace of Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines, Yvelines Department of Île-de-France, Île-de-France region in Franc ...

and the

Château de Compiègne The Château de Compiègne is a French château, a former royal residence built for Louis XV and later restored by Napoleon. Compiègne was one of three seats of royal government, the others being Versailles and Fontainebleau. It is located i ...

. He was also known as Martin the Younger (''le jeune'') or Martin des Gobelins (because he was employed at the Gobelins Manufactory)."Martin, Pierre Denis" in Benezit 2006, vol. 9, p. 372.

Background

P.-D. Martin was born in Paris, and according to d'Argenville, he was the cousin of Jean-Baptiste Martin, while

Pierre-Jean Mariette Pierre-Jean Mariette (; 7 May 1694 – 10 September 1774) was a collector of and dealer in old master prints, a renowned connoisseur, especially of prints and drawings, and a chronicler of the careers of French Italian and Flemish artists. He ...

says he was Martin's nephew and pupil. He is also said to have been the pupil of Adam François van der Meulen and the Parrocel.

Work

He produced a series of paintings at the Château de Choisy, which are now in the Versailles Museum. The dictionary of artists by Bellier de la Chavignerie and Auvray incorrectly attributes several paintings by Pierre-Denis Martin in the Versailles Museum to Jean-Baptiste Martin.Bellier & Auvray 1885, vol. 2
p. 41

Death

Pierre-Denis Martin died in Paris.

Gallery

File:Martin Battle of Yazlovets.jpg, Battle of

Yazlovets Yazlovets (; ) is a village in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage centre of local significance. The village belongs to the hromada, Buchach urban hromada. It lies on the Vilchivchik river, a tributary of t ...

, 1684 File:Batalla de Fleurus (1690).jpg, Battle of Fleurus, 1690 Image:Marly 1724.jpg, The Château de Marly, 1724 File:Marten's Poltava.jpg,

Battle of Poltava The Battle of Poltava took place 8 July 1709, was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War. The Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I defeated the Swedish army commanded by Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld. The battle would l ...

(in 1709), 1726 File:Versailles Pierre-Denis Martin.jpg,

, 1722 Image:Louis XIV Invalides Pierre Denis Martin.JPG,

Louis XIV LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...

, visiting the Hôtel Royal des Invalides, 1706 Image:Pierre-Denis Martin 001.jpg, The Turkish ambassador Mehmet Efendi leaving the

Tuileries Garden The Tuileries Garden (, ) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was opened to the public in ...

after an audience with Louis XV, 1721

References

Notes Sources * Bellier de la Chavignerie, Émile; Auvray, Louis (1882, 1885, 1887). ''Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française''. Paris: Renouard. Vols
1: A–L
(1882)
2: M–Z
(1885), an
supplement
(1887) at Google Books. * Benezit, Emmanuel; et al. (2006). ''Benezit – Dictionary of Artists''. Paris: Gründ. .

External links

*
From Direction des Musées de France

List of works
at Joconde: Portail des collections des musées de France 1663 births 1742 deaths 17th-century French painters French male painters 18th-century French painters 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-17thC-stub