Claude-Guy Hallé

French painter (1652–1736)

Daniel Hallé (father)
Catherine Coquelet (mother)

AwardsPrix de Rome (1675)Director of the Académie de Peinture et de SculptureIn office
1733–1735^[a]MonarchLouis XVPreceded byLouis de BoullogneSucceeded byGuillaume Coustou

Claude-Guy Hallé (French pronunciation: [klod ɡi ale]; 14 January 1652, Paris – 5 November 1736, Paris) was a French painter, draughtsman, and illustrator.

Biography

Hallé was born in Paris on 14 January 1652 to Daniel Hallé, a painter from Rouen, and Catherine Coquelet. In 1675, he won the Prix de Rome with Adam's Transgression. In 1699, Hallé joined the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture with his painting The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg.^[1]

Hallé was elected a professeur of the Académie in 1702^[2] and then a recteur in 1733.^[3] Following the death of directeur Louis de Boullogne on 28 November 1733, the painter Hyacinthe Rigaud proposed that the four rectors of the Académie, Hallé, Nicolas de Largillière, Guillaume Coustou, and himself, rotate the post.^[4]^[5] This oligarchy would persist until the election of Coustou as sole director on 5 February 1735.^[6]^[7]

His son was the painter Noël Hallé and his daughter, Marie-Anne Hallé, married the painter Jean II Restout. Hallé died in Paris on 5 November 1736.^[1]

Works

Adam's Transgression (1675), now lost
Jeux d'enfants : le saut du chien, French embassy in Germany
Presentation in the Temple, Rouen; Musée des beaux-arts
Adoration of the Mahgi, Musée d’Orléans
The Annunciation, Musée du Louvre
Reparation by the doge of Genoa to Louis XIV, 15 May 1685, Musée de Marseille
Simon Hurtrelle (1648-1724), Musée de Versailles

Gallery

Works by Hallé
The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg (1699)
Reparations made to Louis XIV by the Doge of Genoa in the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles on 15 May 1685 (1715)

References

Notes

^ The directorship of the Académie was shared until February 1735 between Hallé and the three other rectors: Hyacinthe Rigaud, Nicolas de Largillière, and Guillaume Coustou

Citations

^ ^a ^b Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 6, Cemignani–Herring. Paris: Éditions Gründ. 2006. p. 1055.
^ de Montaiglon, Anatole, ed. (1880). Procès-Verbaux de l'Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture, 1648-1793 (in French). Vol. III. Paris: J. Baur. p. 346.
^ de Montaiglon, Anatole, ed. (1883). Procès-Verbaux de l'Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture, 1648-1793 (in French). Vol. V. Paris: J. Baur. p. 120.
^ de Montaiglon 1883, p. 127 (volume V)
^ Michel, Christian (2018). The Académie Royale de Peinture Et de Sculpture: The Birth of the French School, 1648-1793. Getty Research Institute. p. 352.
^ Michel 2018, p. 352
^ Williams, Hannah (2016). Académie Royale: A History in Portraits. Routledge. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-4094-5742-8.