Nicolas Fouché
Nicolas Fouché (1653–1733) was a French painter. Fouché was born in Troyes, the son of painter Léonard Fouché. He was received into the Académie de Saint-Luc on 15 March 1679.
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Nicolas Fouché
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- Born
- 1653 · Troyes.
- Died
- 1733 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · designer
- Fields
- portrait
- Languages
- French
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Nicolas Fouché (1653–1733) was a French painter. Fouché was born in Troyes, the son of painter Léonard Fouché. He was received into the Académie de Saint-Luc on 15 March 1679.
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The abbé de Monville, biographer of Pierre Mignard, called Fouché one of his students. Cardinal Melchior de Polignac owned a series of paintings of the eight liberal arts by Fouché, inventorised by his heir, in 1738. He died in Paris.
The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Nicolas Fouché is recorded in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes.
• Budapest, Fine Arts Museum, Pomona, oil on canvas, 1, 475 by 1,145 m. • Illustration — Pomona, 1700 • London, Sotheby • Illustration — Portrait of a Lady, half length, wearing an embroidered dress with a blue shawl, holding a garland of flowers, 1690s • Tours, musée des Beaux-arts, La Poèsie, at the château de Chanteloup prior to the revolution, oil on canvas, 1,10 by 0,81 m.
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• Louis Desplaces (1682–1739) • Audran family • Gérard Edelinck • James Johnson
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- 1.Musées d'Orléans, Peintures françaises et italiennes,. Musée des Beaux-Arts. 2023.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Wildenstein, « Nicolas Fouché peintre de l'Académie de Saint-Luc vers 1650-1733 », Gazette des Beaux-Arts, , , p. 311-313.
- André Saramite, « Un nouveau tableau identifié de Nicolas Fouché, la Vénus à la coquille », Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1971, p. 83-90.
- David Brouzet, « La Poésie du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours attribuée à Nicolas Fouché », Les Cahiers d'histoire de l'art, 5, 2007, p. 48-53.
- David Brouzet, « Le Portrait de Madame de la Vieuville en Flore du musée Lambinet attribué à Nicolas Fouché (Troyes, 1653-Paris, 1733) », Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Art, 9, 2011, p. 113.
- François Marandet, « A rediscovered painting by Nicolas Fouché in Bournemouth », The Burlington Magazine, 159, 1368, , p. 200-202.
- Csaba Hertelendy, « A forgotten master’s enigmatic work : Nicolas Fouché’s painting of Pomona », Bulletin du musée hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 128, 2023, p. 195-216.
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