Jean François de Troy

Jean François de Troy (January 27, 1679, Paris - January 26, 1752, Rome) was a French Rococo painter and tapestry designer. He was one of a family of painters, being the son of the portrait painter François de Troy (1645-1730), under whom he first studied, and at whose expense he went to Italy 1699-1706, staying in Rome, but also visiting many north Italian cities.

Biography

Jean François de Troy was born on January 27, 1679 in Paris.The successful career of Jean François de Troy was based initially on large historical and allegorical compositions, such as "Time Unveiling Truth" (1733) in the National Gallery, London, but he is now most highly regarded for his smaller and more spirited scenes of elegant social life. They are among the best of those that rode on the wave of Watteau's success—indeed "The Alarm, or the Gouvernante Fidèle" (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1723) was attributed to Watteau in the 19th century. A versatile artist, he made "tableaux de modes" famous, painting histories and mythologies in a colourful and fluent manner which owed something to both Veronese and Peter Paul Rubens.

He undertook commissions for Versailles and Fontainebleau between 1724 and 1737, and designed two sets of tapestries for the Gobelins, each of seven subjects, the "Histoire d'Esther" (1737-40) and the "Histoire de Jason" (1743-6).

In 1738 he was appointed Director of the French Academy in Rome, and spent the rest of his life there. De Troy's wife died prematurely, and he lost of all his seven children. Jean François de Troy died on January 26, 1752 in Rome.

Notable works

*"A Hunting Meal" (1737, Musée du Louvre, Paris)
*" was depicted in a painting. D. & P. Kladstrup, "Champagne", pg 41, Harper Collins Publisher, ISBN 0060737921.]
*"" (1735)

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References

* [http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a622-1.html Brief bio at the Getty Museum website]

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