context: The publication (1710) of engravings based on these drawings made Nattier famous, but he declined to proceed to the French Academy in Rome, though he had taken the first prize at the Paris Academy at the age of fifteen.
source: Nattier aspired to be a history painter.
reference_original: Nattier aspirava ad essere un pittore storico.
reference_flipped: Nattier aspirava ad essere una pittrice storica.