DUFRESNOY, Charles Alphonse
(b. 1611, Paris, d. 1668, Villiers-le-Bel)

Allegory of Painting

c. 1650
Oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon

Dufresnoy spent the greater part of his life in Italy. He combined a taste for Venetian painting with an admiration for Poussin.




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