Gilles Allou
Illustration — Portrait of Antoine Coysevox (Versailles) Gilles Allou (1670–1751) was a French painter. He was a well-known portrait painter in his time, but is little known today. Gilles Allou was born in 1670.
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Gilles Allou
![A woman drawing at a desk; representing optics. Engraving by M. Dossier after G. Allou., [1762], by Gilles Allou](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0007540/full/1280,/0/default.jpg)
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- Gilles Allou was born in 1670. · Paris.
- Died
- Gilles Allou died, sources differ on the date (2 February 1751 and 3 February 1751). · Paris.
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- French
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Illustration — Portrait of Antoine Coysevox (Versailles) Gilles Allou (1670–1751) was a French painter. He was a well-known portrait painter in his time, but is little known today. Gilles Allou was born in 1670.
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Gilles Allou (1670–1751) was a painter, of French nationality. The painter was born and died in Paris.
Languages used include French. Works are held at Musée de l'Histoire de France, Nationalmuseum and Palace of Versailles.
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The Allou family came from Beauvaisis. On 8 July 1702 Gilles Allou, architect, son of the jeweler Philippe Allou and of Elisabeth Calippe, married Marie Raguenet. They had three children. It was not until 1710 that Allou's application for membership in the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture was approved, and this was on the basis that he submitted three reception pieces, although normally only two were required. He was granted full membership of the academy in 1722 after he submitted portraits of the Academicians Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720), Antoine Coypel (1661–1722) and Bon Boullogne (1648–1717). Salon records describe about thirty portraits, including one now found in Nashville, TN, although most have been lost. The engraver Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu engraved Allou's portrait of Bon Boullogne for his Academy reception piece on 25 October 1749. Allou died on 3 February 1751 at the age of eighty one. • Illustration — Portrait of Louis de Boullongne.
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1670
Gilles Allou was born in 1670 at Paris.
1751
Gilles Allou died in 1751 at Paris.
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Allou, Gilles, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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