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Description: | Jacques Courtois was a French painter of genre scenes. Born in the French Comte - hence his nickname 'Le Bourguignon' (or in Italian 'Il Bourgognone') - he spent most of his life from the age of 15 in Italy. He trained in Bologna, Florence and Siena, and was settled in Rome by 1640, where he probably knew the battle painter Michelangelo Cerquozzi and the Flemish genre painter Pieter van Laer. Courtois' battle scenes have a baroque sense of drama, a deftness of touch, and an evocative atmosphere that made him much in demand in his lifetime and ensured that subsequently vast numbers of inferior pictures have been erroneously attributed to him. During the 1650s he travelled throughout northern Italy and in 1657 he joined the Jesuit order. He continued to paint but from this time added religious paintings to his repertoire. | Subjects: | (battle) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Courtois, Jacques (French painter and printmaker, 1621-1676, active in Italy) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8323... | Go to resource |
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