Pierre-Charles Tr?moli?res

(b Cholet, 1703; d Paris, 11 May 1739). French painter, draughtsman and etcher. In 1719 he began apprenticeship in the Paris studio of Jean-Baptiste van Loo, and thanks to family connections he soon made contact with the influential patron the Comte de Caylus, in whose house he lodged. One of his first commissions was to etch two sets of three plates (1726 and 1728) after drawings by Antoine Watteau for the collection of prints Figures de diff?rents caract?res de paysages et d'?tudes ..., published by Jean de Jullienne in 1726. Tr?moli?res also attended drawing lessons at the Acad?mie Royale, and in 1726 and again in 1727 he gained second prize in the Prix de Rome competition. In 1728 he went to complete his artistic education at the Acad?mie de France in Rome with Pierre Subleyras and Louis-Gabriel Blanchet.

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