Charles de La Fosse
1636 – 1716
Charles de La Fosse (also spelled Delafosse), painter whose decorative historical and allegorical murals, while continuing a variant of the stately French Baroque manner of the 17 th century, began to develop a lighter, more brightly coloured style that presaged the Rococo painting of the 18 th century. The greatest influence on La Fosse's painting was the work of his teacher, Charles Le Brun, the dictator of artistic matters in France during the reign of King Louis XIV. La Fosse was also impressed with the works of the 16 th -century Italians Francesco Primaticcio (whose visible work was all in France), Titian, and Paolo Veronese, which he studied during his five-year stay in Rome and Venice (from 1658).
15 artworks in collection
