Museum Curtius Jean DelCour 4-02-2010 16-17-43

Jean-Gilles Delcour (1632–1695), is a walloon painter of religious subjects, was born at Hamoir, near

Liège Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...

. He was a scholar of Geraert Douffet, but went to Rome and there studied for a long time under

Andrea Sacchi Andrea Sacchi (30 November 159921 June 1661) was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptors ...

and

Carlo Maratti Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

. He made excellent copies of some of

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of works by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of ...

's most celebrated works, which still exist at Liège, where there are also some original pictures by him in the churches. He died at Liège in 1695.

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* 1632 births 1695 deaths 17th-century Flemish painters People from Liège Province Pupils of Carlo Maratta {{Flemish-painter-stub