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RIGAUD, HYACINTHE (1659-1743)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 338 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RIGAUD, HYACINTHE (1659-1743) , French painter, born at Perpignan on the 20th of July 1659, was the descendant of a
line of artists. Having early lost his father, he was sent by his
mother
  to Montpellier, where he studied under Pezet and was helped by Ranc, then to Lyons, and in 1681 to Paris. There, whilst following the
regular
  course of academical instruction,
Rigaud produced a
great
  number of portraits so good that Le Brun advised him to give up going to Rome and to devote himself wholly to this class of
work
 . Rigaud, although he had obtained the Grand Prix, followed this advice, and for sixty-two years painted at the rate of thirty to
forty
  portraits a year, all carried through with infinite care by his own hand. His portraits of himself, of the sculptor Desjardins (Louvre), of Mignard and of Le Brun (Louvre) may be cited as triumphs of a still more attractive, if less imposing,
character
  than that displayed in his grand representations of Bossuet (Louvre) and Louis XIV. (Louvre), while his beautiful portraits of his
mother
 , Marie Serre (Louvre), must for ever remain amongst the master-pieces of French art. Rigaud, although the
great
  successes to which he owed his fame were won without exception in portrait-
painting
 , persisted in pressing the
Academy
  to admit him as an historical painter. This delayed his reception, and it was not until January 1700 that he succeeded in obtaining his desire. He presented as his diploma works a St Andrew (Louvre) and the portrait of Desjardins already mentioned, exhibited at the salon of 1704, and filled in turn all the various posts of academical distinction. He died on the 27th of December 1743, having never recovered from the
shock
  of losing his wife in the previous year. He had many pupils, and his numerous works had the good fortune to be reproduced by the greatest of French engraversEdelinck, Drevet, Wille, Audran and others.


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