Jacques Carrey

Jacques Carrey ( born January 12, 1649 Troyes, † February 18, 1726 same place ) was a French painter and draftsman. He became famous for a series of drawings that were made ​​in 1674 by the then still largely intact image of the jewelry Parthenon in Athens and the (possibly erroneous ) are attributed to him.

Carrey was a pupil of Charles Le Brun, court painter to Louis XIV. At Le Brun's recommendation, he accompanied in 1670 along with several young artists, diplomats and antiques collector Charles -Henri -François Olier de Nointel, the French ambassador was at the Sublime Porte in Constantinople Opel in the Ottoman Empire. He was commissioned to make copies of the most important buildings and places drawings. Between 1670 and 1679 Carrey made ​​over 500 drawings from everyday life in the Ottoman Empire, where he documented towns, antiquities, customs, festivals and rites in Greece, Asia Minor and Palestine. His drawings are preserved in the Louvre in Paris. The ascribed to him drawings of the Parthenon are of particular documentary value, as they are the only representations of the image jewelry, which was destroyed in 1687 by the explosion of the Parthenon for the most part.