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François Puget
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[[File:Puget-Skull.jpg|thumb|200px|Gentleman Meditating Upon a Skull]]
[[File:'Portrait of several musicians and artists' by François Puget 1688 - Brunel 1980 p31.jpg|thumb|350px|A Meeting of Musicians]]
'''François Puget''' (17 December 1651, [[Toulon]] - 6 October 1707, [[Marseille]]) was a French painter in the [[Baroque]] style; known primarily for his portraits.
== Biography ==
His father was the architect, sculptor and painter, [[Pierre Puget]]. After a scandal involving the Finance Minister [[Nicolas Fouquet]], in 1661, his father decided to stay in [[Genoa]], where he had been working. Two years later, he and his mother Paule followed, and that is where he grew up. The author, Joseph Bougerel (1680-1753), believed that he was briefly a student of [[Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione]], but this has been recently questioned by Marie-Christine Gloton of the [[Académie Française]].<ref name="G">Marie-Christine Gloton, ''Pierre & François Puget: Peintres baroques'', Édisud, 1985 ISBN 2-85744-225-4</ref> In 1668, the family returned to Toulon and his father became the manager of the sculpture workshop at the [[Toulon arsenal|Arsenal]]. He married Jeanne Jourdanis in 1677 and they had three children together.
In 1679, it appears that he followed his father to Marseille, as in 1680 he is known to have created a painting for the convent of the [[Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary]], depicting that event. At the same time, he painted his "Portrait of a Seated Man". Both works are now at the [[Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille]]. He then decided to stay there to assist his aging father. Between 1683 and 1688, he visited Paris three times to present his father's works to King [[Louis XIV]] at [[Versailles]].
He became a widower in 1691, but soon remarried; to Geneviève Mazerat, the daughter of a former (a type of [[Magistrate]]) and a relative of his father's second wife. That same year he became "Peintre Ordinaire du Roi". He seems also to have become the official artist for the city of Marseille, as he created portraits of numerous city office holders from 1697 to 1706.<ref name="G" />
He also had some talents as an architect. After his father's death in 1694, he assumed responsibility for completing the chapel of [[La Vieille Charité]]; especially the [[cupola]] of the dome.<ref>Jean-Jacques Gloton, "Le problème de la chapelle", in:''La vieille charité de Marseille'', Arts et livres de Provence, bulletin N° 75, 1970 p.55</ref>
Other notable works include the "Meeting of Musicians", which was a gift to Louis XIV. It was long believed to be a portrayal of [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]] and [[Philippe Quinault]], but the musicians pictured were actually friends of the Puget family.<ref name="G" /> He also did at least one, and possibly two portraits of his father, c.1692. All of these are in the [[Louvre]]. Several works that were originally attributed to his father have since been identified as his.
==References==
== Further reading ==
* Marie-Christine Gloton, Jean-Jacques Gloton and Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, ''Pierre Puget: peintre, sculpteur, architecte (1620-1694)'', Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1994 ISBN 2-7118-2971-5
* André Alauzen and Laurent Noet, ''Dictionnaire des peintres et sculpteurs de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur'', Jeanne Laffitte, 2006 ISBN 978-2-86276-441-2
== External links ==
[[Category:1651 births]]
[[Category:1707 deaths]]
[[Category:French painters]]
[[Category:French portrait painters]]
[[Category:French Baroque painters]]
[[Category:People from Toulon]]
[[File:'Portrait of several musicians and artists' by François Puget 1688 - Brunel 1980 p31.jpg|thumb|350px|A Meeting of Musicians]]
'''François Puget''' (17 December 1651, [[Toulon]] - 6 October 1707, [[Marseille]]) was a French painter in the [[Baroque]] style; known primarily for his portraits.
== Biography ==
His father was the architect, sculptor and painter, [[Pierre Puget]]. After a scandal involving the Finance Minister [[Nicolas Fouquet]], in 1661, his father decided to stay in [[Genoa]], where he had been working. Two years later, he and his mother Paule followed, and that is where he grew up. The author, Joseph Bougerel (1680-1753), believed that he was briefly a student of [[Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione]], but this has been recently questioned by Marie-Christine Gloton of the [[Académie Française]].<ref name="G">Marie-Christine Gloton, ''Pierre & François Puget: Peintres baroques'', Édisud, 1985 ISBN 2-85744-225-4</ref> In 1668, the family returned to Toulon and his father became the manager of the sculpture workshop at the [[Toulon arsenal|Arsenal]]. He married Jeanne Jourdanis in 1677 and they had three children together.
In 1679, it appears that he followed his father to Marseille, as in 1680 he is known to have created a painting for the convent of the [[Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary]], depicting that event. At the same time, he painted his "Portrait of a Seated Man". Both works are now at the [[Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille]]. He then decided to stay there to assist his aging father. Between 1683 and 1688, he visited Paris three times to present his father's works to King [[Louis XIV]] at [[Versailles]].
He became a widower in 1691, but soon remarried; to Geneviève Mazerat, the daughter of a former (a type of [[Magistrate]]) and a relative of his father's second wife. That same year he became "Peintre Ordinaire du Roi". He seems also to have become the official artist for the city of Marseille, as he created portraits of numerous city office holders from 1697 to 1706.<ref name="G" />
He also had some talents as an architect. After his father's death in 1694, he assumed responsibility for completing the chapel of [[La Vieille Charité]]; especially the [[cupola]] of the dome.<ref>Jean-Jacques Gloton, "Le problème de la chapelle", in:''La vieille charité de Marseille'', Arts et livres de Provence, bulletin N° 75, 1970 p.55</ref>
Other notable works include the "Meeting of Musicians", which was a gift to Louis XIV. It was long believed to be a portrayal of [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]] and [[Philippe Quinault]], but the musicians pictured were actually friends of the Puget family.<ref name="G" /> He also did at least one, and possibly two portraits of his father, c.1692. All of these are in the [[Louvre]]. Several works that were originally attributed to his father have since been identified as his.
==References==
== Further reading ==
* Marie-Christine Gloton, Jean-Jacques Gloton and Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, ''Pierre Puget: peintre, sculpteur, architecte (1620-1694)'', Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1994 ISBN 2-7118-2971-5
* André Alauzen and Laurent Noet, ''Dictionnaire des peintres et sculpteurs de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur'', Jeanne Laffitte, 2006 ISBN 978-2-86276-441-2
== External links ==
[[Category:1651 births]]
[[Category:1707 deaths]]
[[Category:French painters]]
[[Category:French portrait painters]]
[[Category:French Baroque painters]]
[[Category:People from Toulon]]
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