Biography

French painter, draughtsman and etcher. In 1719 he began apprenticeship in the Paris studio of Jean-Baptiste van Loo, and thanks to family connections he soon made contact with the influential patron the Comte de Caylus, in whose house he lodged. One of his first commissions was to etch two sets of three plates (1726 and 1728) after drawings by Antoine Watteau for the collection of prints Figures de différents caractères de paysages et d'études ..., published by Jean de Jullienne in 1726. Trémolières also attended drawing lessons at the Académie Royale, and in 1726 and again in 1727 he gained second prize in the Prix de Rome competition. In 1728 he went to complete his artistic education at the Académie de France in Rome with Pierre Subleyras and Louis-Gabriel Blanchet.

Trémolières was responsible in part for the decoration of the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris (now the National Archives). In 1737 worked on the decoration of the Church of Saint-Bruno-les-Chartreux, the only Baroque church of Lyon, designed by the architect Ferdinand Sigismund Delamonce. He painted two large paintings representing the Ascension and Assumption, to adorn the walls on either side of the altar.

He is also the author of several drawings and etchings. His last painting, the Golden Age displayed in the museum of Cholet, remained unfinished when he died at the early age of 36.