Henri Mauperché

The recorded working language is French. Work by Henri Mauperché is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Ireland and Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris.

Mauperché was born in Paris. He was a student of Daniel Rabel. In 1634, he went to Rome with Louis Boullogne, where he associated with Sébastien Bourdon and a group of painters known as the Bambochade. Mauperché returned to Paris in 1639, where he was commissioned to paint decorations in the guard room and antechamber of the Palais-Cardinal; the residence of Cardinal Richelieu. In 1645, Mauperché married Magdeleine Garnot. From 1646 to 1647, he worked on decorating the "Cabinet de l'Amour" at the Hôtel Lambert, along with the landscape painters Pierre Patel, Jan Asselyn and Herman van Swanevelt. In 1648, Mauperché became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and was named a Professor in 1655, which was an unusual honor for a landscape painter. Together with Laurent de La Hyre, he helped to popularize the classical landscape style of Claude Lorrain. Having become famous for his decorations, Mauperché undertook to paint the apartments of Queen Anne of Austria at Fontainebleau. As with the Hôtel Lambert, the greater part of those works have disappeared. His wife died in 1671. By 1686, Mauperché was too ill to attend sessions of the Académie, and was excused. He died in Paris at the end of that year.

• Illustration — Landscape with figures, c. 1645 • Illustration — Landscape, c. 1650 • Illustration — Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1665 • Illustration — Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1671 • Illustration — Landscape with Jephthah and his daughter • Illustration — Classical landscape with figures