The Alarm of the Loyal Servant

Artwork: The Alarm of the Loyal Servant

Artist: Jean-François de Troy

Created: 1723

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 69.5 x 63.8 cm (estimate)

Location: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Photography credit: @art_love_enjoy_life

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‘’Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752) was born in Paris and was first taught by his father. He later attended lessons at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and sojourned in Italy from 1699 to 1706. He specialised in history painting and genre painting with erotically charged scenes, for which he became best known. He was one of the leading painters of the Parisian high society and was nominated, in January 1738, Director of the Académie Française in Rome where he died in 1752.’’(V&A)

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