Nicolas Fouché (1653–1733) was a French painter. Fouché was born in

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, the son of painter Léonard Fouché. He was received into the

Académie de Saint-Luc The Académie de Saint-Luc (; ) was a guild of painters and sculptors set up in Paris in 1391, and dissolved in 1776. It was created by the Provost of Paris, along the lines of the Guilds of Saint Luke in other parts of Europe. In 1648, a group ...

on 15 March 1679. The abbé de Monville, biographer of

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, called Fouché one of his students. Cardinal

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owned a series of paintings of the eight liberal arts by Fouché, inventorised by his heir, in 1738. He died in

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Works

* Budapest, Fine Arts Museum, ''Pomona'', oil on canvas, 1, 475 by 1,145 m. * London, Sotheby * Tours, musée des Beaux-arts, ''La Poèsie'', at the château de Chanteloup prior to the revolution, oil on canvas, 1,10 by 0,81 m.

Engravers of his work

* Louis Desplaces (1682–1739) * Audran family * Gérard Edelinck * James Johnson

Bibliography

* Wildenstein, "Nicolas Fouché peintre de l'Académie de Saint-Luc vers 1650-1733", ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'', novembre 1964, n° 3. * David Brouzet, "La Poésie du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours attribuée à Nicolas Fouché", ''Les Cahiers d'histoire de l'art'', 2007. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fouche 1653 births 1733 deaths People from Troyes 17th-century French painters French male painters 18th-century French painters 18th-century French male artists