Jean Fran OIS de Troy

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jean François de Troy was a French Rococo painter and tapestry designer. He was one of a family of painters, being the son of the portrait painter François de Troy, under whom he first studied, and at whose expense he first went to Italy from 1699 to 1706, staying in Rome, but also visiting many north Italian cities. The successful career of de Troy was based initially on large historical and allegorical compositions, such as Time Unveiling Truth, but he is now most highly regarded for his smaller and more spirited scenes of elegant social life, painted in Paris between 1725 and 1738, when he went to Rome. They are among the best of those that rode on the wave of Watteau's success-indeed The Alarm, or the Gouvernante Fidèle was attributed to Watteau in the 19th century. A versatile artist, he made these tableaux de modes famous, while also painting histories and mythologies in a colourful and fluent manner which owed something to both Veronese and Peter Paul Rubens