Michel Le Tellier

(b Vernon, 28 Aug 1614; d Rouen, after 1680). French painter. He was the son of a stained-glass painter and was apprenticed for three years from 1628 to the painter and engraver Pierre Br?biette. His early biographers record that he travelled to Italy. In 1654 he became a master in the painters' guild in Rouen; inventories of the possessions of the clergy of Rouen drawn up at the time of the French Revolution (1789-95) indicate that he was a prolific producer of religious paintings, although only a small number of them survive (most now Rouen, Mus. B.-A.).

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