Claude Deruet (1588–1660) was a famous French
Baroque painter of the 17th century, from the city of
Nancy.
Biography
Deruet was an apprentice to
Jacques Bellange, the official court painter to
Charles III
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales and, at age 73, became the oldest person t ...
, Duke of Lorraine. He was in
Rome
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between ca. 1612 and 1619, where - according to
André Félibien
André Félibien (May 161911 June 1695), ''sieur des Avaux et de Javercy'', was a French chronicler of the arts and official court historian to Louis XIV of France.
Biography
Félibien was born at Chartres. At the age of fourteen he went to Pa ...
- he studied with the painter and etcher
Antonio Tempesta
Antonio Tempesta, also called il Tempestino (1555 – 5 August 1630), was an Italian painter and engraver, whose art acted as a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp. Much of his work depicts major battles and his ...
. During his stay in Rome, he painted the Japanese samurai
Hasekura Tsunenaga
was a kirishitan Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyō of Sendai. He was of Japanese imperial descent with ancestral ties to Emperor Kanmu. Other names include Philip Francis Faxicura, Felipe Francisco Faxicura, and Phi ...
on a visit to Europe in 1615.
Deruet was made a noble by the Duke of Lorraine in 1621, and was then made a Knight of the Order of St Michel in 1645 by Louis XIII, who had in 1641 absorbed most of Lorraine into
France
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. He had a luxurious residence in
Nancy, named La Romaine, where
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...
and his Queen stayed in 1633.
Claude Lorrain was an apprentice to Claude Deruet in 1623 for one year. He also married and had two sons, one of whom became a painter.
American architect
DeWitt H. Fessenden wrote a biography of Deruet, ''The Life and Works of Claude Deruet'', in 1952.
References
See also
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French Renaissance
The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European Renaissance, a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define th ...
Image:Hasekura in Rome.JPG, Hasekura Tsunenaga
was a kirishitan Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyō of Sendai. He was of Japanese imperial descent with ancestral ties to Emperor Kanmu. Other names include Philip Francis Faxicura, Felipe Francisco Faxicura, and Phi ...
in Rome, 1615.
Image:Departure of the Amazons MET DP318355.jpg, "Departure of the Amazons", 1620.
Image:Deruet-Road_to_Calvary-1620.jpg, "Road to Calvary", 1620.
1588 births
1660 deaths
French Baroque painters
Artists from Nancy, France
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