1705 – 1772

French painter, active in Rome. He won second place in the Prix de Rome competition in 1727 and thereafter settled in Rome, where he enjoyed the patronage of Nicolas Vleughels, Director of the Académie de France, and the Duc de Saint-Aignan (1684-1776), who at that time was French Ambassador to the Holy See. A virtuoso portraitist, Blanchet painted many of the likenesses of the leading social and political figures in Rome of the day, In 1752 Blanchet painted the Vision of Constantine (Paris, Louvre), a copy of Giulio Romano's fresco in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican.Show more

3 artworks in collection