Artist: Antoine de Favray Painting: Portrait of Charles Gravier Count of Vergennes and French Ambassador, in Turkish Attire Introduction: oil on canvas, 141.5 x 113 cm.
Date 1766(1766)
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Portrait of Charles Gravier Count of Vergennes and French Ambassador Painting ID:: 88731
Artist: Antoine de Favray Painting: Portrait of Charles Gravier Count of Vergennes and French Ambassador Introduction: oil on canvas, 141.5 x 113 cm
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French, 1706-died circa 1791,French painter. He is not documented until 1738, when he was mentioned as a private pupil of Jean-Fran?ois de Troy (ii), who was then director of the Acad?mie de France in Rome; in 1739 he became an official student at the Acad?mie. Among his student works is a copy (untraced) of Raphael's Fire in the Borgo (Rome, Vatican, Stanza dell'Incendio), which was mentioned by Charles de Brosses and exhibited in Paris in 1741. In 1744, for reasons that are not clear, he left Rome for Malta, remaining there for much of the rest of his career and devoting himself primarily to portraiture and genre painting. His ambition as a history painter, however, was fulfilled to a certain extent as a result of the patronage of two Grand Masters of the Order of the Knights of Malta, Manoel Pinto da Fonseca and Emmanuel de Rohan. His first dated picture executed in Malta is a Portrait of a Maltese Lady (1745; Paris, Louvre).
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