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Gilles Allou
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. 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 Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu, called "Tardieu fils" or "Tar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720) Par Gilles Allou (1670-1751)
Charles Antoine Coysevox ( or ; 29 September 164010 October 1720), was a French sculptor in the Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ... and Louis XIV style, best known for his sculpture decorating the gardens and Palace of Versailles and his portrait busts. Biography Coysevox was born 29 September 1640 in Lyon. He was the son of a sculptor, from a family which had emigrated from Franche-Comté, a Spanish possession at the time. He made his first work of sculpture of the Madonna when he was only seventeen, Coysevox came to Paris in 1657 and joined the workshop of the sculptor Louis Lerambert. He trained himself further by making copies in marble of Ancient Rome, Roman sculptures, including a ''Venus de Medici'' and the ''Castor and Pollux''. In 1666, he marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
