Artist
Nicolas Fouché
French, 1653–1733
Nicolas Fouché was a French Rococo painting artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Nicolas Fouché was born in Troyes.
Overview
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. 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.
Works
Budapest, Fine Arts Museum, Pomona, oil on canvas, 1, 475 by 1,145 m.
London, Sotheby 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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