Jean Raoux

Not to be confused with Jean Raoux (soldier).

Jean Raoux (1677 – 10 February 1734), French painter, was born at Montpellier.

After the usual course of training he became a member of the Academy in 1717 as an historical painter. His reputation had been previously established by the credit of decorations executed during his three years in Italy on the palace of Giustiniani Solini at Venice, and by some easel paintings, the Four Ages of Man (National Gallery), commissioned by the grand prior of Vendôme. To this latter class of subject Raoux devoted himself, nor did he even paint portraits except in character. The list of his works is a long series of sets of the Seasons, of the Hours, of the Elements, or of those scenes of amusement and gallantry in the representation of which he was immeasurably surpassed by his younger rival Watteau. After his stay in England (1720) he lived much in the Temple, where he decorated several rooms. He died in Paris in 1734. His best pupils were Chevalier and Montdidier. His works were much engraved by Poilly, Moyreau, Dupuis, etc.

Gallery

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  L’indiscrète (1728)

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  Young Woman Reading a Letter

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  Jeune fille qui fait voler un oiseau (1717)

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  Les petites musiciennes

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  Vestal Virgin

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  Pygmalion amoureux de sa statue (1717)

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  Orpheus and Eurydice (c. 1718–1720)

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  Charles-Joachim Colbert de Croissy, bishop of Montpellier (engraved by François Chéreau after a painting by Jean Raoux)

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press 

External links

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• Entry and example at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA