Nicolas Fouché

Nicolas Fouché (1653–1733) was a French painter.

Fouché was born in Troyes, the son of the painter Léonard Fouché. He was received into the Académie de Saint-Luc on 15 March 1679. The abbé de Monville, biographer of Pierre Mignard, called Fouché one of his students. Cardinal Melchior de Polignac owned a series of paintings of the eight liberal arts by Fouché, inventorised by his heir, in 1738. He died in Paris.

Works

 * Budapest, Fine Arts Museum, Pomona, oil on canvas, 1, 475 by 1,145 m.
 * London, Sotheby [[File:Portrait of a Lady wearing an embroidered dress with a blue shawl, holding a garland of flowers.png|thumb|Portrait of a Lady, half length, wearing an embroidered dress with a blue shawl, holding a garland of flowers, 1690s]]
 * Tours, musée des Beaux-arts, La Poèsie, at the château de Chanteloup prior to the revolution, oil on canvas, 1,10 by 0,81 m.

Engravers of his work

 * Louis Desplaces (1682–1739)
 * Audran family
 * Gérard Edelinck
 * James Johnson