François de Troy

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Alexis Simon Belle : François de Troy , oil on canvas, 18th century
François de Troy: The Duchess of Maine as Cleopatra

François de Troy (born January 9, 1645 in Toulouse , † November 21, 1730 in Paris ) was a French painter and engraver .

Life

François de Troy came from an old family of artists in Toulouse; his father and grandfather Jean Troy were glass painters. His older brother Jean Troy (1638–1691) was also known as a painter in Montpellier. François Troy was born in 1645 as the fifth of seven children of Antoine Troy (1608–1684) and Astrugue Bordes. Little is known about his youth in Toulouse. It is possible that between 1659 and 1662 he met the Dutch painter Caspar Netscher in Bordeaux, with whom he shares his specialization in small-format portraits. De Troy's pictures are also said to be similar to the art of Netscher's teacher Gerard ter Borch and Gerard Dou .

In the mid-1660s, de Troy came to Paris and studied first with Pierre Nicolas Loir (1624–1679), then with the royal portrait painter Claude Lefèbvre . 1668 married de Troy Jeanne Cotelle, sister-in-law of his master Loir and daughter of the painter Jean I Cotelle (1607–1676), with whom he had seven children, including the successful painter Jean-François de Troy . Through his teachers he came into contact with the most important Parisian artists, including Charles Le Brun , from whom he was entrusted with the execution of parts of his works. In 1674 François de Troy was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture with the history painting Mercury and Argus (Paris, École des Beaux-Arts ). In the course of his career he made a name for himself as a portrait painter . From 1690 he was the court painter of the exiled English King James II in Saint-Germain-en-Laye . In the last quarter of his life, from around 1710, de Troy's works were influenced by younger artists such as Antoine Watteau , Nicolas Lancret and his son, and he increasingly created small-format genre scenes .

François de Troy died in Paris in 1730.

literature

Web links

Commons : François de Troy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Françoise Collanges: Recherches sur Jean Troy, peinture et graveur (1638–1691) . DEA, Université de Paris IV Sorbonne. Paris 1997.
  2. ^ Dominique Brême: François de Troy 1645-1730 . Paris 1997, p. 20.
  3. ^ Dominique Brême: François de Troy 1645-1730 . Paris 1997, p. 32.
  4. ^ Dominique Brême: François de Troy 1645-1730 . Paris 1997, p. 170.
personal data
SURNAME Troy, François de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1645
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1730
Place of death Paris