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Charles de La Fosse
(1636-1716)
de La Fosse also spelled DELAFOSSE (b. June 15, 1636, Paris,
Fr. d. Dec. 13, 1716, Paris), painter whose decorative historical and
allegorical murals, while continuing a variant of the stately French
Baroque manner of the 17th century, began to develop a lighter, more
brightly coloured style that presaged the Rococo painting of the 18th
century.
The greatest influence on La Fosse's painting was the work of his
teacher,
Charles Le Brun,
the dictator of artistic matters in France
during the reign of King Louis XIV. La Fosse was also impressed with
the works of the 16th-century Italians Francesco Primaticcio (whose
visible work was all in France),
Titian,
and Paolo Veronese, which he
studied during his five-year stay in Rome and Venice (from 1658). In
1689-91 La Fosse decorated Montagu House in London. His greatest work
was the decoration of the cupola of the Church of Les Invalides in
Paris (1705), while the
Sacrifice of Iphigenia in the Salon de Diane
of Versailles and the
Sunrise in the Salon d'Apollon are his most
important works in the style of Charles Le Brun. More significant to
later artists, however, are his smaller works, such as
The Finding of Moses
(1675-80; Louvre, Paris), remarkable for their use of light and
their fresh colour sense. He became a member of the Royal Academy in
1673 and was named chancellor in 1715.
[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994]
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