Name Hugues Taraval Parents Guillaume Taraval | Role Guillaume Taraval's son | |
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Jean-Hugues Taraval (27 February 1729 – 19 October 1785) was a French painter.
Taraval was born in Paris, the son of the French painter Guillaume Taraval, who moved his family to Stockholm in 1732 to work on the decoration of the new Royal Palace. Initially a pupil of his father, Hugues returned to Paris after his father's death in 1750. There he studied with Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre and Charles-Andre van Loo.
In 1756, he won the Prix de Rome with Job mocked by his wife, now in the Musee des beaux-arts de Marseille. In Rome he was a pupil of Charles-Joseph Natoire at the Academie francaise.
Admitted to the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) in Paris in 1765, he was received there in 1769. His reception piece is a Triumph of Bacchus, one of the elements of the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre. As a painter and decorator he worked at the Chateau de Bellevue, France in Meudon (1767), the Ecole Militaire (Military School) of Paris (1773), the College de France (1777), the Chateau de Marly (1781), and the Palace of Fontainebleau (1781).
Hugues Taraval died in Paris.