Nicolas Colombel

Christ healing the Blind, painting from 1682, now at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Atalante and Hippomenes, about 1680, now at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.

Nicolas Colombel, a French painter, was born at Sotteville, near Rouen, about 1644. He went to Rome when quite young, and remained there until 1692, forming his style by a study of the works of Raphael and of Nicolas Poussin. His pictures met with considerable success, though in the opinion of critics of more modern days he never attained any real approximation to the works of those masters. He was admitted into the Academy of St. Luke at Rome in 1686, and in 1694 into that of Paris. The Louvre possesses the 'Mars and Rhea Sylvia,' which he painted for his reception, and an able work representing the 'Miracle of St. Hyacinthe.' He was much employed by Louis XIV both at Versailles and at Meudon. Many of his works have been engraved by Dufloc, and by Michel Dossier. He died in Paris in 1717.

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This article incorporates text from the article "COLOMBEL, Nicolas" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886-1889 publication now in the public domain.

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Name	Colombel, Nicolas
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Date of birth	1644
Place of birth	Sotteville-lès-Rouen
Date of death	1717
Place of death	Paris