Louis Galloche (24 August 1670 – 21 July 1761) was a French painter. A student of

Louis de Boullogne Louis de Boullogne II (19 November 1654 – 2 November 1733), known as Boullogne fils, was a French painter. Life Boullogne was born and died in Paris, and was the brother of Bon Boullogne. Their father, Louis Boullogne, feared rivalry between t ...

, his own students included

François Lemoyne François Lemoyne or François Le Moine (; 1688 – 4 June 1737) was a French rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which co ...

, Charles-Joseph Natoire and François Boucher.

Life

He was born in Paris, the son of Charles Galloche and Jeanne Martinet. He studied at the

Lycée Louis-le-Grand The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on rue Saint-Jacques in central Paris. It was founded in the ...

. Originally destined for the church, he soon found he had no vocation and began the study of philosophy.

Bibliography

* François Marandet, "Louis Galloche et Fançois Lemoyne: caractères distinctifs et œuvres inédites", ''La Revue des Musée de France. Revue du Louvre'', 2-2007, p. 29-36.

Sources

* Louis Gougenot, ''Mémoires inédits sur les membres de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture'', Paris, J.-B. Dumoulin, 1854, p. 289-302. {{DEFAULTSORT:Galloche, Louis 1670 births 1761 deaths 17th-century French painters French male painters 18th-century French painters 18th-century French male artists