Nicolas Fouché
Introduction '''Nicolas Fouché''' (1653–1733) was a French painter.Fouché was born in Troyes, the son of the painter Léonard Fouché. He was received into the Académie de Saint-Luc on 15 March 1679.The abbé de Monville, biographer of Pierre Mignard, called Fouché one of his students. Cardinal Melchior de Polignac owned a series of paintings of the eight liberal arts by Fouché, inventorised by his heir, in 1738.He died in Paris.
Works * Budapest, Fine Arts Museum, ''Pomona'', oil on canvas, 1, 475 by 1,145 m.Pomona, 1700* Tours, musée des Beaux-arts, ''La Poèsie'', at the château de Chanteloup prior to the revolution, oil on canvas, 1,10 by 0,81 m.
Engravers of his work * Louis Desplaces (1682–1739)* Audran family* Gérard Edelinck* James Johnson
Bibliography * Wildenstein, "Nicolas Fouché peintre de l'Académie de Saint-Luc vers 1650-1733", ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'', novembre 1964, n° 3. * David Brouzet, "La Poésie du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours attribuée à Nicolas Fouché", ''Les Cahiers d'histoire de l'art'', 2007.