Claude Audran II

(b Lyon, 27 March 1639; d Paris, 4 Jan 1684). Painter. He learnt the rudiments of painting in Lyon from Guillaume Perrier I (d 1656) and Guillaume Perrier II (1625-59), the brother and nephew of François Perrier. Around 1657 he moved to Paris, where he was employed by Noël Coypel and Charles Errard le fils on work in Versailles, the Louvre and the Tuileries. Charles Le Brun used him to make sketches for his Battles of Alexander the Great and for various works at the Louvre, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Sceaux and Versailles; at Versailles, Audran collaborated with Charles de La Fosse and Gabriel Blanchard on the restoration of paintings in the Salon de Diane, and also provided some of his own compositions; he executed several easel paintings on religious subjects, including St Denis, St Louis and the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (Paris, Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux). He was admitted (reçu) by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1657, with a painting of the Last Supper, and in 1669 he was appointed Peintre Ordinaire du Roi. In 1681 he was appointed professor at the Académie.

Part of the Audran family

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