Raymond Lafage

Bust of Raymond Lafage by Jan van der Brugge at Lisle-sur-Tarn.

Raymond Lafage (1656, Lisle-sur-Tarn – 1684, near Lyon) was a Baroque French artist, notable for his mythological prints and drawings.

Biography

According to the RKD he was a student of Jean-Pierre Rivalz, and in turn he taught that painter's son Antoine Rivalz, and the painter François Boitard.[1] He travelled to Italy to make drawings after Italian masters, and is registered as having worked in Toulouse. He planned a second sojourn in Italy, but died en route in Lyon.[1]

According to Houbraken he was able to draw a crowd in a tavern with his ingenious method of drawing a complicated version of the Pharaoh entering the red sea in two hours, from what appeared to be random scratches on a piece of paper. His student Boitard could repeat this trick, but not quite as well.[2] Houbraken became familiar with his other work through the prints published by Jan van der Brugge, who made a series titled "Effigies Raymundi la Fage" with engravings by Cornelis Vermeulen, Gérard Audran, Franz Ertinger, and Charles Louis Simonneau.[3] This series was later published in Amsterdam in 1785 by Jacob Yntema.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Raymond de Lafage". Rkd.nl.
  2. ↑ (Dutch) Raimond la Fage in Joan vander Brugge biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Verzameling van prentkonst, naar zestig der beste tekeningen, van Raimond la Fage". Rkd.nl.