François Tortebat (1616—June 4, 1690) was a French
portrait painter
Portrait Painting is a 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 commission, for public and pr ...
and
engraver.
Career
Born to Louis Tortebat and Marguerite de Nameur, Tortebat joined the studio of
Simon Vouet 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 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 an ...
. 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
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, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
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, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
's return to Paris with his new wife
Maria Theresa of Spain
Maria Theresa of Spain ( es, María Teresa de Austria; french: Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche; 10 September 1638 – 30 July 1683) was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV. She was born an Infanta of Spain and Portugal a ...
in 1660.
Tortebat became a member of the
Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (; en, "Royal Academy of Painting and 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 abol ...
in 1663, where his
reception piece was a posthumous portrait of Vouet. Tortebat also published a series of etching after paintings by
The Carracci from the
Palazzo Magnani in
Bologna
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. Tortebat died in Paris in 1690.
Further reading
*Clark, Jr., Alvin L. “A New Attribution to François Tortebat.” ''Master Drawings'', vol. 44, no. 4, 2006, pp. 493–497.
JSTOR
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, www.jstor.org/stable/20444477.
References
External links
Oxford profile
1616 births
1690 deaths
Painters from Paris
17th-century French painters
17th-century French engravers
French portrait painters
Portrait engravers
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