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LAFOSSE, CHARLES DE (16401716)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 72 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LAFOSSE, CHARLES DE (16401716) , French painter, was born in Paris. He was one of the most noted and least servile pupils of Le Brun, under whose direction he shared in the
chief
  of the
great
  decorative works undertaken in the reign of Louis XIV. Leaving France in 1662, he spent two years in Rome and three in Venice, and the influence of his prolonged studies of Veronese is evident in his " Finding of Moses " (Louvre), and in his " Rape of Proserpine " (Louvre), which he presented to the Royal
Academy
  as hisdiploma picture in 1673. He was
at once named assistant professor, and in 1674 the full responsibilities of the office devolved on him, but his engagements did not prevent his accepting in 1689 the invitation of Lord Montagu to decorate Montagu
House
 . He visited London twice, remaining on the second occasiontogether with Rousseau and Monnoyermore than two years. William III. vainly strove to detain him in England by the proposal that he should decorate Hampton
Court
 , for Le Brun was dead, and Mansart pressed Lafosse to return to Paris to take in hand the cupola of the Invalides. The decorations of Montagu
House
  are destroyed, those of
Versailles
  are restored, and the
dome
  of the Invalides (engraved, Picart and Cochin) is now the only
work
  existing which gives a full measure of his talent. During his latter years Lafosse executed many other important decorations in public buildings and private houses, notably in that of Crozat, under whose roof he died on the 13th of December 1716.


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