Claude Simpol, ''Claude Saint-Pol'' or ''Claude Saint-Paul'' (c. 1666 – before 1711) was a French painter.

Life

Born in Clamecy, he studied under Boullogne and frère Luc. He was admitted to the

Académie de Saint-Luc The Académie de Saint-Luc (; ) was a guild of painters and sculptors set up in Paris in 1391, and dissolved in 1776. It was created by the Provost of Paris, along the lines of the Guilds of Saint Luke in other parts of Europe. In 1648, a group ...

on 23 March 1695 and won several prizes (including the second prize in the 1687

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for ''Noah's Flood'') at the

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, to which he was admitted on 30 April 1701. Specialising in

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s, he was listed on 2 March 1709 as still not having provided his academy work, whose subject was ''Neptune's Dispute with Minerva, or the Naming of the City of Athens''. He was described by

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as an artist who had "little love for work" and who adopted "bad conduct, which continually forced him to struggle with need:. Even so, he produced paintings for the menagerie at the

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in 1702 and 1703 and produced a

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for Notre-Dame in Paris in 1704 (''Jesus in the House of Martha and Mary'', now in the Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras). He also produced several drawings to be engraved and a teaching model for a polisher in Paris. He also worked for the publisher Jean Mariette, who commissioned fashion plates, pastoral scenes and religious images from him. These include a set of twelve scenes of rural subject matter, once thought to be by Jacques Stella, representing the months, and a number of illustrations for ''Les Vies des SS. Pères des déserts d’Orient'' published in 1711. Les vies des SS. Pères des déserts d’Orient : Avec des Figures qui représentent l’austérité de leur vie, & leur principales occupations. Nouvelle édition. Tome second. À Paris, chez Jean Mariette, rue st. Jacques, aux Colonnes d’Hercules. M. DCC. XI. He died in Paris.

Drawings

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Preparatory design by him, acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 2012.
* Drawings by him acquired in 2012 by the Musée des Beaux-arts de Rennes
Our Lady of Storms
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Masquerade scene

Drawings by him in the Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York.

Drawings by him in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard.

Drawings by him in the British Museum.

Sources

Charles-Philippe de Chennevières-Pointel Charles-Philippe is a compound given name which may refer to: * Charles Philippe d'Albert, 4th Duke of Luynes, Charles-Philippe d'Albert, 4th Duke of Luynes (1695–1758), French memoir writer * Charles Philippe de Croÿ (1549–1613), Marquis of H ...

, ''Archives de l’art français'', volume 1, Paris, Dumoulin, 1852, p. 400.

References

External links

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Works by Claude Simpol
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