- Guillaume Courtois
Guillaume Courtois (
1628 -June 15 ,1679 ), called "Il Borgognone", was a French painter and etcher, the brother of the Jesuit painterJacques Courtois . His working career was spent inRome . He is also known as "Guglielmo Cortese".Like his brother, he was born in Saint-Hippolyte,Doubs in
France to a painter. Together, father and sons went toItaly when Guillaume was still a child.He arrived in
Rome by 1638, and entered the studio ofPietro da Cortona , supplementing his training by drawing from life and copying works ofGiovanni Lanfranco andAndrea Sacchi . He studied also the Bolognese painters and Giovanni Barbieri, and formed for himself a classicizing style with very little expressmannerism , partly resembling that ofCarlo Maratta .He painted the "Battle of Joshua" in the Gallery of the
Quirinal Palace , the "Crucifixion of St Andrew" inSant'Andrea al Quirinale , various works for theJesuits , some also in co-operation with his brother. His last production was "Christ admonishing Martha.""Encyclopaedia Britannica" 1911 found that "His draughtsmanship is better than that of Jacques, whom he did not, however, rival in spirit, colour or composition." Guillaume Courtois died of
gout on June 15, 1679.References
*1911
* [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=499&page=1 Getty Museum: Guillaume Courtois]
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