Jean Nicolle

Not to be confused with Jean Nichol.
Place des Victoires, Paris, by Victor-Jean Nicolle

Jean Nicolle (19 July 1614 - 12 April 1650) was a French Norman painter and musician.[1]

Jean Nicolle was born in Louviers in 1614, the fourth child of Louis Nicolle and Marguerite Coyplet.[1] Both his father Louis and his uncle, Marin Nicolle, also painted. He discovered painting at a young age and showed an early talent, painting Saint Adrien, en costume Henri IV for the hospice in Louviers at age 10.[2] On 22 November 1639 he married Anne David (born 1617), with whom he had nine children.

He found a patron in Claude Baudry of Piencourt, the abbot in nearby La Croix-Saint-Leufroy.[2] Some of his paintings decorate the choir of Notre-Dame de Louviers, while others are at the City Museum.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Nationale, France Ministère de L'éducation (1894). Réunion des sociétés des beaux-arts des départements ... (in French). pp. 579–594.
  2. ^ a b Bénézit, Emmanuel (1924). Dictionnaire Critique Et Documentaire Des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs & Graveurs de Tous Les Temps Et de Tous Les Pays: L-Z (in French). R. Roger et F. Chernoviz. pp. 361–362.
  3. ^ Mercier, E. Le (1906). Monographie de l'église Notre-Dame de Louviers (in French). Ch. Hérissey et fils. p. 152.


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