Claude Audran III (25 August 1658 – 27 May 1734) was a French painter. Audran was born in

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into a family of artists. He lived with his uncle,

Claude Audran the Younger Claude Audran the Younger (1639–1684), the second son of Claude I, was born at Lyons. He studied drawing with his uncle Charles in Paris, and subsequently went to Rome. On his return he was engaged by Le Brun at Paris, and assisted him in his ...

. Painter to the

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in 1699. From 1700-1701 he took part in the decoration of the Menagerie of Versailles and the

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, and the

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Château d'Anet The Château d'Anet is a château near Dreux, in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France, built by Philibert de l'Orme from 1547 to 1552 for Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Henry II of France. It was built on the former château at the ...

Château de Meudon Meudon Castle, also known as the Royal Castle of Meudon or Imperial Palace of Meudon, is a French castle located in Meudon in the Hauts-de-Seine department. At the edge of a wooded plateau, the castle offers views of Paris and the Seine, as we ...

, and Les Invalides. In 1704, he decorated the new apartment of the

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at the

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. Audran obtained the office of Keeper of the

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in 1704. In 1709, he executed a backdrop for King Louis XIV at the Château de Marly. This setting, now destroyed, is known from preparatory drawings. He was a decorative artist, and made a number of tapestries for the

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s. Audran's style included

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grotesque Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus ...

s and

singerie ''Singerie'' is the name given to a visual arts genre depicting monkeys imitating human behavior, often fashionably attired, intended as a diverting sight, always with a gentle cast of mild satire. The term is derived from the French word for "Mo ...

s. He died in Paris in 1734.

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"The Audran" by Georges Duplessis (French), 1892

Les Audran / par Georges Duplessis
(French) 1658 births 1734 deaths 17th-century French painters French male painters 18th-century French painters 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-17thC-stub

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