André Bouys

French painter

Self-portrait with his first wife Marie-Anne Rousseau (1713)

André Bouys (1656–1740) was a French portrait painter and mezzotint engraver.

Biography

Bouys was born at Hyères about the year 1656. He studied under François de Troy, and acquired sufficient reputation to gain admission into the Academy in 1688, when he presented a portrait of the painter Charles de La Fosse, now at Versailles, where there are likewise two portraits of himself, one of them representing also his first wife. He died in Paris in 1740, having engraved several portraits, among which are the following:

Marin Marais (1704)

• Andre Bonys and his first Wife.
• Francois de Troy, painter.
• Claude Gros, de Boze; And. Boys pinx. ad vivum. 1708.
• François Rene, Marquis de Bellay; Boys pinx.
• Jean Baptiste Massillon, Bishop of Clermont; Boys fec.
• Marin Marais, famous musician. (pictured)

Reunion of musicians (c. 1710)

Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans, 1700

Portrait of Anne Grené de Préfontaines and her husband Claude Perrinet de Longuefin

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Bouys, André". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

• Media related to André Bouys at Wikimedia Commons