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RIGAUD, HYACINTHE (1659-1743)

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RIGAUD, HYACINTHE (1659-1743) , See also:French painter, See also:born at See also:Perpignan on the 20th of See also:July 1659, was the descendant of a See also:line of artists. Having See also:early lost his See also:father, he was sent by his See also:mother to See also:Montpellier, where he studied under Pezet and was helped by See also:Ranc, then to See also:Lyons, and in 1681 to See also:Paris. There, whilst following the See also:regular course of academical instruction, Rigaud produced a See also:great number of portraits so See also:good that Le Brun advised him to give up going to See also:Rome and to devote himself wholly to this class of See also:work. Rigaud, although he had obtained the See also:Grand Prix, followed this See also:advice, and for sixty-two years painted at the See also:rate of See also:thirty to See also:forty portraits a See also:year, all carried through with See also:infinite care by his own See also:hand. His portraits of himself, of the sculptor Desjardins (Louvre), of See also:Mignard and of Le Brun (Louvre) may be cited as triumphs of a still more attractive, if less imposing, See also:character than that displayed in his grand representations of See also:Bossuet (Louvre) and See also:Louis XIV. (Louvre), while his beautiful portraits of his mother, See also:Marie Serre (Louvre), must for ever remain amongst the See also:master-pieces of French See also:art. Rigaud, although the great successes to which he owed his fame were won without exception in portrait-See also:painting, persisted in pressing the See also:Academy to admit him as an See also:historical painter. This delayed his reception, and it was not until See also:January 1700 that he succeeded in obtaining his See also:desire. He presented as his diploma See also:works a St See also:Andrew (Louvre) and the portrait of Desjardins already mentioned, exhibited at the See also:salon of 1704, and filled in turn all the various posts of academical distinction. He died on the 27th of See also:December 1743, having never recovered from the See also:shock of losing his wife in the previous year. He had many pupils, and his numerous works had the good See also:fortune to be reproduced by the greatest of French engravers—See also:Edelinck, Drevet, Wille, See also:Audran and others.

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