Claude-Guy Hallé (; 14 January 1652, Paris – 5 November 1736, Paris) was a French painter, draughtsman, and illustrator.

Biography

Hallé was born in Paris on 14 January 1652 to

Daniel Hallé Daniel Hallé (; 27 September 1614, in Rouen – 14 July 1675, in Paris) was a French painter. He studied painting in his birthplace and was apprenticed there on 4 November 1631. He produced a ''Multiplication of the Loaves'' (1665) and ''Martyr ...

, a painter from

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, and Catherine Coquelet. In 1675, he won the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

with ''Adam's Transgression''. In 1699, Hallé joined the

Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (; ) was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abolished in 1793 during the French Revolution. I ...

with his painting ''The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg''. Hallé was elected a ''professeur'' of the Académie in 1702 and then a ''recteur'' in 1733. Following the death of ''directeur''

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on 28 November 1733, the painter

Hyacinthe Rigaud Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra (; 18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743), known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud (), was a Catalan-French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility. Biography Rigau ...

proposed that the four rectors of the Académie, Hallé,

Nicolas de Largillière Nicolas de Largillière (; baptised 10 October 1656 – 20 March 1746) was a French people, French painter and Drawing, draughtsman. Biography Early life Largillière was baptised at the in Paris on 10 October 1656. The son of a merchant hatm ...

, Guillaume Coustou, and himself, rotate the post. This oligarchy would persist until the election of Coustou as sole director on 5 February 1735. His son was the painter

Noël Hallé Noël Hallé (; 2 September 1711, Paris – 5 June 1781, Paris) was a French painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was born into a family of artists, the son of Claude-Guy Hallé. Hallé took the Prix de Rome in 1736. He studied at the Fre ...

and his daughter, Marie-Anne Hallé, married the painter

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. Hallé died in Paris on 5 November 1736.

Works

* ''Adam's Transgression'' (1675), now lost * ''Jeux d'enfants : le saut du chien'', French embassy in Germany * ''Presentation in the Temple'', Rouen; Musée des beaux-arts * ''Adoration of the Mahgi'', Musée d’Orléans * ''The Annunciation'',

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* ''Reparation by the doge of

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to Louis XIV, 15 May 1685'', Musée de Marseille * ''Simon Hurtrelle (1648-1724)'', Musée de Versailles

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File:The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg MET 1976.100.11.jpg, ''The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg'' (1699) File:Louis14-Versailles1685.jpg, ''Reparations made to Louis XIV by the Doge of Genoa in the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles on 15 May 1685'' (1715)

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