Charles-Alphonse Of Fresnoy
See also: Dufresnoy
Charles-Alphonse Of Fresnoy , born in 1611 with Paris and died in 1665 was a painter, an critic art and a poet French.
He was the pupil of Simon Vouet, and the friend of Pierre Mignard, with which he visited the Italy. The Musée of Louvre has this artist a Groupe of Naïades and a Sainte Marguerite pressing with the feet a dragon .
These two compositions contributed less to its reputation than its Latin poem on painting:
- De Arte graphica , published after its death by Roger de Piles, Paris, 1684, with a translation in prose and estimated notes.
Renou gave one of them 2nd translation, in French worms, 1789, and Antoine Rabany one 3rd, in 1810. Finally this work was translated into English worms by John Dryden.
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