Jean François de Troy
Jean-François de Troy (born January 27, 1679 in Paris , † January 24, 1752 in Rome ) was a French painter . He achieved fame in particular for his tableaux de mode , which he created from 1724 .
Life
De Troy comes from a family of artists, his great-grandfather and grandfather were glass painters in Toulouse before his father, the portrait painter François de Troy , came to Paris in the mid-1660s and became famous there. De Troy received his artistic training from his father, from whom he was sent to Italy in 1699 . Until 1706 he lived in Rome , Venice and Pisa . After his return, in July 1708, he was accepted into the Académie de peinture et de sculpture , whose director was his father, with the painting Niobe and her children ( Musée Fabre ) ; In 1719 he was appointed professor. Between 1724 and 1737 he made works for the Palace of Versailles and Fontainebleau , but also for wealthy clients such as the financier Samuel Bernard and the art patron Jean de Jullienne . He made a name for himself above all with his tableaux de mode (fashion pictures), small-format genre representations with gallant scenes from the life of the French aristocracy .
In 1738 de Troy was appointed director of the Académie française in Rome , where he spent the rest of his life. In 1751 he was replaced by Charles-Joseph Natoire . He was an honorary member of the Roman Guild of St. Luke , of which he was briefly director in 1744.
De Troy married Marie-Anne le Trouyt-Deslandes (1710–1742) in 1732. Their seven children all died before their father. De Troy died in Rome on January 26, 1752.
Jean-François de Troy executed a large number of mythological , biblical and historical paintings for churches and castles , as well as designed tapestries . His students included Michel-François Dandré-Bardon , Antoine Favray and Marianne Loir .
Works (selection)
- Potsdam, Sanssouci Palace
- The declaration of love (1731)
- Munich, Bernheimer Fine Old Masters
- Allegory of the Sense of Taste (Young Man with Wine Glass) (1727)
- Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux Arts
- The death of Cleopatra (1731)
- Glasgow, University of Glasgow, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
- The Lady Drinking Tea (1735)
- New York, Metropolitan Museum
- The loose garter belt (1725)
literature
- Jean-Pierre Cuzin: "'Le Déjeuner de chasse' de Jean-François de Troy (1679–1752) peint pour Fontainebleau". In: Revue du Louvre , 1991, No. 1, pp. 43-48.
- Christophe Leribault: Jean-François de Troy (1679–1752) , Paris 2002.
- Christoph Martin Vogtherr , Marie-Laure de Rochebrune, Mechthild Most: The "letter sealer" from Jean-Siméon Chardin. New insights into a restored masterpiece . Edited by the General Management of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg , Potsdam 2003.
- Jörg Ebeling: ' Tableaux de mode' - studies on the aristocratic genre image in France in the first half of the 18th century . Diss. University of Marburg, 2012.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Troy, Jean François de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Troy, Jean-François de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1679 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1752 |
| Place of death | Rome |