Claude Audran III
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Claude Audran III (25 August 1658[1] – 27 May 1734) was a French painter.
Audran was born in
Louis XIV of France in 1699. From 1700-1701 he took part in the decoration of the Menagerie of Versailles and the Chapels of Versailles, and the Palace of Fontainebleau, Château d'Anet, Château de Meudon, and Les Invalides. In 1704, he decorated the new apartment of the Duchess at the Château de Sceaux. Audran obtained the office of Keeper of the Luxembourg Palace in 1704. In 1709, he executed a backdrop for King Louis XIV at the Château de Marly
. This setting, now destroyed, is known from preparatory drawings.
He was a
References
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- ^ a b c d "Claude Audran (1658-1734) - Author - Resources from the BnF". data.bnf.fr (in French). 15 February 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ "Brief Bio Claude Audran III". Answers.com. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
Further reading
- OCLC 1008263215.
- Préaud, Maxime (1996). "Audran". In Turner, Jane (ed.). OCLC 1033657161 – via the Internet Archive.
- Stein, Henri [in French] (1948). "Audran (Les)". In Prévost, Michel; Roman d'Amat, Jean-Charles (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie français. Vol. 4. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. cols. 448–454.
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