Nicolas Fouché
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Nicolas Fouché was a French painter. The son of the painter Léonard Fouché, he was received into the Académie de Saint-Luc
on 15 March 1679. The abbé de Monville, biographer of Pierre Mignard
, called him a student of Fouché. Cardinal Melchior de Polignac
owned a series of paintings of the eight liberal arts by Fouché, inventorised by his heir, in 1738.
Académie de Saint-Luc
The Académie de Saint-Luc was a painters' guild set up in Paris in 1391 by the Provost of Paris, along the lines of the Guilds of Saint Luke in the rest of Europe...
on 15 March 1679. The abbé de Monville, biographer of Pierre Mignard
Pierre Mignard
Pierre Mignard , called "Le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter...
, called him a student of Fouché. Cardinal Melchior de Polignac
Melchior de Polignac
Melchior de Polignac was a French diplomat, Roman Catholic cardinal and neo-Latin poet.A younger son of Armand XVI, marquis de Polignac, he was born at Lavoûte-sur-Loire, Haute-Loire, Auvergne. At an early age he achieved distinction as a diplomat...
owned a series of paintings of the eight liberal arts by Fouché, inventorised by his heir, in 1738.
Works
- Budapest, Fine Arts Museum, Pomona, oil on canvas, 1, 475 by 1,145 m.
- 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.