Jean-Hugues Taraval (27 February 1729 – 19 October 1785) was a French painter.Lee 1996.According to the

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, his name is sometimes given as Hughes Taraval. Taraval was born in Paris, the son of the French painter Guillaume Taraval, who moved his family to Stockholm in 1732 to work on the decoration of the new Royal Palace. Initially a pupil of his father, Hugues returned to Paris after his father's death in 1750. There he studied with

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and Charles-André van Loo. In 1756, he won the

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he was a pupil of Charles-Joseph Natoire at the Académie française. Admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) in Paris in 1765, he was received there in 1769. His reception piece is a ''Triumph of Bacchus'', one of the elements of the ceiling of the

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. As a painter and decorator he worked at the Château de Bellevue, France in

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(1767), the

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(1777), the Château de Marly (1781), and the

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(1781). Hugues Taraval died in Paris.

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Bibliography

* Lee, Simon (1996). "Taraval", vol. 30, p. 343, in ''

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(subscription required). * Riot (Delphine), Hugues Taraval: a state of the art, Master Thesis, University of Lille III, Lille, 2001 (Unpublished). * Riot (Delphine), Hugues Taraval (1729-1785): Painter Ordinary King. (Article in preparation) * Sandoz (Mark), "Hughes Taraval (Paris 1729-1785)", Bulletin of the Society of the History of French Art, 1972 (éd.1973), p. 195-255.

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