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1 C. Perrault, ‘Jacques Blanchard, peintre’, in Les hommes Labours of Hercules, was not deemed a success and was
illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle avec leurs never completed.
portraits au naturel, Paris, vol. II, 1700, p. 92.
6 Vouet, Grand Palais, Paris, 1990, cat. by Jacques Thuillier.
2 A. Félibien, Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus
excellens peintres anciens et modernes, vol. 1, 4th sec., 1685, p. 7 Vouet had been appointed at Louis XIII’s behest. In Rome,
78. he had been the leader of the French artistic colony, and
by 1624, was elected president of the Accademia di San
3 A.-J. Dézallier d’Argenville, Abrégé se la vie des plus fameux Luca.
peintres…, Paris, 1762, vol. IV, p. 51, as referenced by
Richard Beresford in his article ‘Deux inventaires de 8 Prior to the years he spent in Rome between c. 1613 and
Jacques Blanchard’, included in ‘L’Art à l’époque du 1627, Vouet travelled extensively with his father, visiting
cardinal de Richelieu’, Archives de l’Art français, 1985, t. London, Venice and Constantinople, absorbing the
XXVII, p. 107. influence of Titian and Veronese. A hiatus spent working
for the Doria family in Genoa around 1621 brought him
4 Along with Le Sueur and La Hyre, his assistants and into contact with Rubens and Reni. Travels to Bologna
students included Pierre Boucle, Charles Le Brun, Pierre exposed him to the Carracci and Guercino and, of course
Patel, François Perrier, Charles Poërson, Jacques-Samuel throughout his Roman career, his work was informed by
Bernard, Thomas Blanchet, Nicolas Chaperon, Michel Caravaggio.
Corneille, Charles-Alphonse Du Fresnoy, Claude
François, André Le Nôtre, Louis Lerambert, Nicolas- 9 Pourbus was appointed Court Portraitist to Henri IV (c.
Pierre Loir, Pierre Mignard I, Rémy Vuibert, Abraham 1609) and his widow, and was inherited by Marie de
Willaerts,Valentin de Boulogne, and Claude Mellan. Médicis when she became regent. She later added Peter
Paul Rubens (c. 1610) to her portfolio of foreign,
5 This was during his brief period in Paris between 1640 Catholic artists.
and 1642, when Poussin had been summoned from Rome
by Louis XIII and Richelieu to supervise the works in the 10 “Estant arrivé à Lyon,il s’engagea avec un pientre nommé Horace
Louvre, and was appointed premier peintre du Roi for this le Blanc. Pendent deux ou trois ans qu’il travailla sous luy, il se
purpose. A bitter rivalry sprang up between the two fortifia beaucoup dans la pratique de son art. Horace ayant esté
artists and Poussin, disgusted by his former friend’s appelé par le duc d’Angoulesme pour piendre la gallerie de son
scheming, asked to be discharged from his duties to maison de Gros-Bois, à quatre lieues de Paris, Blanchart, qui
return to Rome. His massive ceiling decoration of the n’avoit pas voulu le suivre, demeura encore quelque temps à Lyon
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