Claude Audran the Younger

Cyrus Hunting Wild Boar by Claude Audran the Younger, Palace of Versailles

Claude Audran the Younger (1639–1684), the second son of Claude I, was born at Lyons. He studied drawing with his uncle Charles in Paris, and subsequently went to Rome. On his return he was engaged by Le Brun at Paris, and assisted him in his pictures of the 'Passage of the Granicus,' the 'Battle of Arbela,' and in many other of his works; and was an imitator of his style. He painted also in fresco, under the direction of Le Brun, the chapel of Colbert's Château at Sceaux, the gallery of the Tuileries, the grand staircase at the Palace of Versailles, and other works. He drew well, and had great facility of execution. He died in Paris in 1684.

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This article incorporates text from the article "AUDRAN, Claude, 'the younger,'" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.