(3 March 1700 - 23 August 1777) was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751-1775. Considered during his lifetime the equal of François Boucher, he played a prominent role in the artistic life of France.
He is remembered above all for the series of the History of Psyche for Germain Boffrand's oval salon de la Princesse in the Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, and for the tapestry cartoons for the series of the History of Don Quixote, woven at the Beauvais tapestry manufacture, most of which are at the Château de Compiegne.
Related Paintings of Charles-Joseph Natoire :. | Le Triomphe d'Amphitrite. | Portrait of Louis Dauphin of France with a Plan of the Siege of Tournai | Eine junge Frau mit Rosen | Eine junge Frau mit Rosen | Portrait of French bishop and theologian Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy | Related Artists:
Antonio Munoz DegrainSpanish , Valencia, 1840 - M - laga, 1924
Frans Hals1580-1666
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In the field of group portraiture his work is equalled only by that of Rembrandt. Hals's portraits, both individual and group, have an immediacy and brilliance that bring his sitters to life in a way previously unknown in the Netherlands. This effect, achieved by strong Baroque designs and the innovative use of loose brushstrokes to depict light on form, was not to the taste of critics in the 18th century and the early 19th, when his work was characterized as lazy and unfinished. However, with the rise of Realism and, later, Impressionism, Hals was hailed as a modern painter before his time. Since then his works have always been popular.
HERREYNS, WillemFlemish painter (b. 1743, Antwerpen, d. 1827, Antwerpen)
