Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels (1682 – 24 March 1727) was a
French engraver, wife of the King's engraver
Nicolas-Henri Tardieu.
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.
Marie-Anne had at least five siblings.
Her sister
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels was an active reproductive engraver who married
Charles-Nicolas Cochin, graveur du roi.[1]
Marie-Nicole married
Alexis Simon Belle, peintre ordinaire du roi.[2]
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 (1638–1715) and for the Duchess of Burgundy.[3]
They married around 1705, and Germain died around 1710.
They had at least one son, Germain-Jacques Lecocq.[4]
At the age of thirty, on 20 April 1712 she married again, to
Nicolas-Henri Tardieu. They had five children: Louis-Nicolas, Jacques-Nicolas, Pierre-Denis, Marie-Perrette and Marie Madelaine.[3]Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu was born on 2 September 1716 in Paris.
He was also to become a well-known engraver.[5]
Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels died on 24 March 1727 at the age of 45.[6]
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans by Jean-Baptiste Santerre
References
^Her work is usually signed "Marie Horthemels",
although her portrait of Cardinal de Bissy is signed "Marie-Hyacinthe Horthemels".
There had been some debate over the authorship of the engravings signed only "Marie Horthemels",
since they could be the work of her sister Marie-Nicole.
However, the location of "rue Saint-Jacques, au Maecenas" is given on pieces signed "Marie" and "Marie-Hyacinthe", indicating that they are all the work of Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels.[4]