Name Jean de | ||
 | ||
Mozart (Violin Sonata No .17) and Jean Francois de Troy
Jean Francois de Troy (January 27, 1679, Paris – January 26, 1752, Rome) was a French Rococo painter (including frescoes) and tapestry designer. He was one of a family of painters, being the son of the portrait painter Francois de Troy (1645–1730), under whom he first studied, and at whose expense he first went to Italy from 1699 to 1706, staying in Rome, but also visiting many north Italian cities.
Contents
Biography
The successful career of de Troy was based initially on large historical and allegorical compositions, such as Time Unveiling Truth (1733, National Gallery, London), but he is now most highly regarded for his smaller (cabinet-sized) and more spirited scenes of elegant social life, painted in Paris between 1725 and 1738, when he went to Rome. They are among the best of those that rode on the wave of Watteau's success—indeed The Alarm, or the Gouvernante Fidele (1723, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1723) was attributed to Watteau in the 19th century. A versatile artist, he made these tableaux de modes famous, while also painting histories and mythologies in a colourful and fluent manner which owed something to both Veronese and Peter Paul Rubens. Also in Rome he made the fresco one in the north aisle of the ancient basilica Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio depicting Saint Gerolamo Emiliani introducing orphans to the Virgin.
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 (1743–46).
In 1738 he was appointed Director of the French Academy in Rome and spent the rest of his life there. He was also elected as an honorary member of the Roman Academy of St Luke, and subsequently appointed briefly as director in 1744. De Troy's wife died prematurely, and he lost all of his seven children. Jean Francois de Troy died on January 26, 1752 in Rome.
Main paintings
Death of a stag (1737) wallce collection , london A hunt breakfast (1737) wallace collection, London