See also: Perrier

François Perrier , born with Pontarlier in 1590 and died in Paris in July 1650, is a painter and engraver French.

Biography

In the years 1620 - 1625, it leaves for Rome, where it takes the painter Giovanni Lanfranco, large decorator baroque, for model. Of return in France, and after a short stay with Lyon, it sets at Paris in 1630 and works at the sides of Simon Vouet. In the years 1632 - 1634, it has as raises Charles Le Brun. It sets out again for Rome in 1635, there remains ten years and works with the decoration of the Peretti palate.

In 1638, François Perrier publishes a collection of one hundred boards to the Eau-forte, " Segmented Nobilium Signorum and Statuarum… " , appearing the statues of Rome (Robert-Dumesnil, VI, p. 176). , then in 1645 " Icons and segmented… quae Romae adhuc extant… " , reproducing collection of 55 boards of the Roman low-reliefs (Robert-Dumesnil, VI, p. 189). In 1645, of return to Paris, it paints the vault of the gallery of the hotel of Vrillière, current the Banque de France, of which there remains only one copy, and the cabinet of the love of the Lambert hotel, at the sides of Eustace Sweat. In 1648, it is one of the twelve founders of the royal Académie of painting and sculpture.

Major works

• Orphée in front of Pluto and Proserpine , museum of Louvre, Paris
• Enée and his/her companions combatant Harpies
• Acis and Galatée concealing taking into consideration Polyphème
• the plague of Athens
• the sacrifice of Iphigénie