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JEAN FRANCOIS DE TROY (1679–1752)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 314 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN FRANCOIS DE TROY (1679–1752)  , French painter, was born at Paris in 1679 . He received his first lessons from his
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father, himself a skilful portrait painter, who afterwards sent his son to Italy . There his amusements occupied him fully as much as his studies; but his ability was such that on his return he was at once made an official of the Academy, and obtained a large number of orders for the decoration of public and private buildings, executing at the same time a quantity of easel pictures of very unequal merit . Amongst the most considerable of his
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works are
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thirty-six compositions painted for the hotel of De Live (1729), and a series of the story of
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Esther, designed for the Gobelins whilst De Troy was director of the school of France at Rome (1738–1751)—a
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post which he resigned in a
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fit of irritation at court neglect . He did not expect to be taken at his word, and was about to return to France when he died on the 24th of
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January 1752 . The
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life-
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size
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painting (Louvre) of the " First Chapter of the Order of the
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Holy Ghost held by Henry IV.," in the church of the Grands Augustins, is one of his most
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complete performances, and his dramatic composition, the " Plague at
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Marseilles," is widely known through the excellent
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engraving of Thomassin . The Cochins, father and son, Fessard, Galimard, Bauvarlet, Herisset, and the painters Boucher and Parrocel, have engraved and etched the works of De Troy .

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