Christine Marie de France as Minerva, Charles Dauphin

Charles Claude Dauphin or Dofin, called in Italian Delfino (1615/1620 – 1677), a French painter of historical subjects and portraits, was the son of Olivier Dauphin.

Biography

He was born in Nancy,

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. By about 1640, he had joined in Paris the studio of

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. There he works alongside F. Tortebat and M. Dorigny. In 1647, he married in Paris. When Vouet died in 1649, his studio dispersed.Encyclopedia Treccani
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 33 (1987) by Jacques ThuillierDizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 33 (1987) by Jacques Thuillier. Dauphin went to

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about the year 1652, and worked there for the

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. He was also employed in local churches. In the church of San Carlo is an

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by him, described by Lanzi as a most ludicrous composition. He died in 1677 in Turin.

References

Attribution: * * A. Cifani, F. Monetti, La pala dell’altare dell’Accademia di san Luca, capolavoro di Carle Dauphin, in: Arte e Artisti nel Piemonte del ‘600. Nuove scoperte e nuovi orientamenti, Torino 1990, pp. 22-28; * A. Cifani, F. Monetti, Picturae miraculum: un capolavoro ritrovato. Contributi per Carle Dauphin, altri inediti e nuovi documenti, in “Arte Cristiana”, Gennaio-Febbraio 1998, n. 784, volume LXXXXVI, pp. 61–66; * Scheda “Charles Dauphin, a cura di Arabella Cifani, in: Galleria Giamblanco dipinti antichi. Pittura italiana dal seicento al settecento venti anni di attività, Torino 2013, pp. 18–22, ivi bibliografia ulteriore. Year of birth unknown 1677 deaths 17th-century French painters French male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Turin Year of birth uncertain Artists from Nancy, France {{France-painter-17thC-stub