Pierre Parrocel

Pierre Parrocel portrait by Nicolas de Largillière, Calvet Museum

Pierre Parrocel (1664–1739) was a French painter of the late-Baroque period.

Life[]

He was born in Avignon to a large family of artists, including his uncle Joseph Parrocel and his father, . He was first instructed by his uncle, and then trained with Carlo Maratti in Rome, and in 1730 became a member of the Accademia di San Luca there.

Works[]

His principal work, as a painter, was in the gallery of the Hôtel de Noailles at St. Germain-en-Laye, where he represented the history of Tobit in thirteen pictures. He also painted a Coronation of the Virgin' in the church of St. Mary at Marseille. He also etched and engraved in a style analogous to that of  ; but he was not equally successful with the graver. Of the fourteen etchings left by him, The Triumph of Aphrodite is perhaps the most noteworthy.

References[]

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 256.CS1 maint: location (link)

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