Claude Deruet

Claude Deruet ( * ca 1588, † 1660) was a Baroque painter from Lorraine.

Life

Deruet was a student of Jacques Bell Ange, the court painter of Duke Charles III. of Lorraine. He stayed there from about 1612 to 1619 in Rome, where he studied with Antonio Tempesta, according to André Félibien (1685 ). In addition he painted, as archival testify as an assistant of Giuseppe Cesari frescoes in the Casino Mont Alto the Villa Lante in Bagnaia. In Rome he painted 1615 staying in Europe samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga and frescoed the private chapel of Scipione Caffarelli Borghese in Villa Borghese on the Pincio. The Rome-based engraver and publisher Philippe Thomassin led various graphic prints from after sketches of Deruet. As one of the most important paintings of Deruet obtained from the period after his return to Lorraine applies today in the Alte Pinakothek of the Bavarian State Painting Collections located picture Rape of the Sabines.

1621 Deruet was raised by Duke Henry II of Lorraine in the peerage. 1623 Claude Lorrain was a student for one year Deruet. The high regard Deruet manifests itself among other things, that the French King Louis XIII. and the Queen in Nancy in 1633 lived in his house during the whole time of their visit. 1645 hit him, the French king Michael Knight in the Order. The resulting estate inventory Deruet proof that he had an extensive art collection. Jacques Callot stabbed a portrait of Deruet; the handwritten sketch this has been preserved in the Louvre.

Works (excerpt)

• Louis XIII. , Richelieu and Gaston d' Orléans before the siege of La Rochelle, 1627, oil on canvas, 140 × 168 cm, Chancellery of the Universités, Paris