Pierre Gobert - Artist Info

About Pierre Gobert

  • Biography

    A French painter born in Fontainebleau, son of sculptor Jean II Gobert, Pierre Gobert was admitted to the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture on December 31, 1701 as a portrait painter.

    At the end of Louis XIV's reign, he became one of the regular painters of the aristocracy at the Court of Versailles, sometimes depicting his models in the guise of mythological figures.

    Married to Marie-Catherine Nivelon, Pierre Gobert was also the official painter of the Lorraine Court, and in a deed of 1707, a certain Jean Gobert, master painter, residing on the Place du Palais-Royal, is mentioned as Pierre Gobert's brother, but is otherwise unknown.

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