Jean-Baptiste Marie Fouque (July 2, 1819 – April 11, 1880), also anglicised as Jean Marius Fouque or Marius Fouque, was a French

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

specialising in portraits and mythological subjects.

Biography

Born in Arles in 1819, the son of the locksmith Honorat Fouque and Marguerite Barbier, Jean-Baptiste studied painting under the Arlesian painter and archaeologist François Huard. He was awarded a scholarship from the city council of Arles, to study at the

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. There, he studied under the direction of Joseph-Léon de Lestang-Parade and Léon Cogniet. In 1854 he married Marie Perrine Leray, a seamstress from Rennes. The couple had two sons: Émile, born in 1849, and Adrien, born in 1855. The first

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of Fouque's art was in 1846, and resulted in a steady stream of commissions for the government of the Second French Empire. He produced portraits of both Emperor Napoleon III and Empress

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, as well as many foreign nobles and royals such as Princess Tatiana Alexandrovna Yusupova of Russia and Rama V, the

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. In addition to his portraiture, Fouque painted many allegorical and religious works. In 1863, he returned to Arles to paint several altarpieces and other works for the Church of Saint Trophime and the Church of Saint Cesaire.

Collections

Several of Fouque's paintings are in the collection of the Hermitage Museum.

Notable works

* ''The Sculptor Pradier'', Museum of Art and History, Geneva * ''Portrait of Rama V'',

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, Thailand * ''Portrait of Tatiana Alexandrovna Yusupova'',

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* ''The Assumption'' and ''The Meeting at the Golden Gate'', Chapel of Saint Anne, Church of Saint Cesaire, Arles * ''Saint Cesaire at the bedside of the prefect of Ravenna'', Church of Saint Trophime, Arles * ''Purgatory'', Chapel for the Souls in Purgatory, Church of Saint Cesaire, Arles

Attributed works

* ''Virgin of the Immaculate Conception'', Church of Saint Trophime,

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( Bouches-du-Rhône) * ''Saint Trophime of Arles'', Church of Saint Trophime, ArlesJean-Maurice Rouquette, Paul Allard, Régis Bertrand et Marc Heijmans, ''Arles : histoire, territoires et cultures'', Arles, Actes Sud, 2008,

References

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