François Tortebat (1616—June 4, 1690) was a French

portrait painter Portrait painting is a Hierarchy of genres, genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commissio ...

and engraver.

Career

Born to Louis Tortebat and Marguerite de Nameur, Tortebat joined the studio of

Simon Vouet Simon Vouet (; 9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and ...

around 1631, and married his teacher's eldest daughter, Francoise, on November 9, 1643, with whom he had thirteen children. Tortebat is recorded as being in Rome between 1635 and 1640, making large copies of

Raphael Cartoons The Raphael Cartoons are seven large cartoon paintings on paper for tapestries, surviving from a set of ten cartoons, designed by the High Renaissance painter Raphael in 1515–1516. Commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel in the ...

as the result of a commission from Cardinal

Antonio Barberini Antonio Barberini (5 August 1607 – 3 August 1671) was an Italian people, Italian Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims, Archbishop of Reims, military leader, patron of the arts a ...

. Tortebat rejoined Vouet's studio upon his return to France. After Vouet's death in 1649, Tortebat collaborated with his teacher's other son-in-law,

Michel Dorigny Michel Dorigny (1616 – 20 February 1665) was a French painter and engraver. Biography Dorigny was born in Saint-Quentin. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History he was a pupil of Georges Lallemand and Simon Vouet.

, gaining exclusive rights to reproduce Vouet's works in print form, and designing the sets for

Louis XIV LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...

's return to Paris with his new wife

Maria Theresa of Spain Maria Theresa of Spain (; ; 10 September 1638 – 30 July 1683) was Queen consort of France, Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV. She was born an Infante, Infanta of Spain and Portugal as the daughter of King Philip IV ...

in 1660. Tortebat became a member of the

Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (; ) was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abolished in 1793 during the French Revolution. I ...

in 1663, where his

reception piece In art, a reception piece is a work submitted by an artist to an academy for approval as part of the requirements for admission to membership. The piece is normally representative of the artist's work, and the organization's judgement of its skil ...

was a posthumous portrait of Vouet. Tortebat also published a series of etching after paintings by

The Carracci The Carracci ( , , ) were a Bolognese family of artists that played an instrumental role in bringing forth the Baroque style in painting. Brothers Annibale (1560–1609) and Agostino (1557–1602) along with their cousin Ludovico (1555–161 ...

from the Palazzo Magnani in

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. Tortebat died in Paris in 1690.

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Oxford profile
1616 births 1690 deaths Painters from Paris 17th-century French painters 17th-century French engravers French portrait painters Portrait engravers Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture People from the Province of Île-de-France {{France-painter-stub

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