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Jean François de Troy

1679 - 1752

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Jean-François de Troy (27 January 1679, Paris – 26 January 1752, Rome) was a French Rococo easel and fresco painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer. One of France's leading history painters in his time, he was equally successful with his decorative paintings, genre scenes and portraits. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean François de Troy has received more than 78,282 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jean François de Troy is the 933rd most popular painter (down from 855th in 2019), the 2,712th most popular biography from France (down from 2,432nd in 2019) and the 166th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean François de Troy ranks 933 out of 1,421Before him are Adriaen van der Werff, Anni Albers, Abram Arkhipov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Nicolas Froment, and Pan Yuliang. After him are Albrecht Adam, Cornelis Engebrechtsz., Giovanna Garzoni, Abanindranath Tagore, Raden Saleh, and Xu Wei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1679, Jean François de Troy ranks 9Before him are Jan Dismas Zelenka, Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma, Woodes Rogers, Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Pierre Fauchard. After him are Firmin Abauzit, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1752, Jean François de Troy ranks 9Before him are Henriette of France, Jacopo Amigoni, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Antonio Corradini, Giulio Alberoni, and Joseph Butler. After him are Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Pietro Grimani, Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Daniel Marot, and William Whiston.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean François de Troy ranks 2,712 out of 6,011Before him are Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154), François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), André Messager (1853), Pierre André de Suffren (1729), Marcel Granet (1884), and Jorge Chávez (1887). After him are André Dussollier (1946), Zaz (1980), Alexis Bouvard (1767), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Louis Lavelle (1883), and Pierre Bézier (1910).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean François de Troy ranks 166Before him are Eustache Le Sueur (1616), François-Xavier Fabre (1766), Abraham Bosse (1604), Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1828), Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700), and Nicolas Froment (1430). After him are Henri Gervex (1852), Jean-Louis Forain (1852), Félix Ziem (1821), Antoine Pesne (1683), Othon Friesz (1879), and François-Auguste Biard (1799).