Charles errard biography

The Judgment Of Paris

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Roman Vase with Bacchus-Relief (»Krater Borghese«)

Charles Errard the Younger ([ɛʁaʁ]; –) was a French painter, architect and engraver, co-founder and director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.

Louis XIV's minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert delegated to him the foundation of the French Academy in Rome in , and he was its founding director from then until (apart from between and , when he was replaced by Noël Coypel).

Biography

Charles Errard was trained as a painter by his father, Charles Errard the Elder, a court painter to Louis XIII.

The son's long career as an artist in France was interrupted by several stays in Rome, going there to study with his father in , equipped with a royal scholarship, and again in He drew ancient works of art as well as figures, busts, reliefs, ornament and Trajan's Column, as well as contemporary buildings.

Soon he became a brilliant draughtsman.

After his return to Paris, he worked for differen