Claude-Guy Hallé was a French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 painter

Painting

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. He was the son of the painter Daniel Hallé

Daniel Hallé

Daniel Hallé was a French painter.Studying painting in his birthplace, he was apprenticed there on 4 November 1631. He produced a Multiplication of the Loaves and Martyrdom of Saint-Symphorien...

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Claude Guy Hallé won the prix de Rome

Prix de Rome

The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...

 in 1675 for The Transgression of Adam and Eve. He was crowned many times by the Académie royale de peinture. He was entrusted with many large works at the royal residences of Meudon

Meudon

Meudon is a municipality in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is in the département of Hauts-de-Seine. It is located from the center of Paris.-Geography:...

 and Trianon

Trianon

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. His son was the painter Noël Hallé

Noël Hallé

Noël Hallé was a French painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was born into a family of artists, the son of Claude-Guy Hallé....

 and his daughter, Marie-Anne Hallé (b 1704), married the painter Jean II Restout

Jean II Restout

Jean II Restout was a French painter, whose late baroque classicism rendered his altarpieces, such as the Death of Saint Scholastica an "isolated achievement" that ran counter to his rococo contemporaries.-Biography:...

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Works

• The Transgression of Adam and Eve, 1675
• Jeux d'enfants : le saut du chien, French embassy in Germany
• Presentation in the Temple, Rouen ; Musée des beaux-arts
  Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
  The musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen is an art museum in Rouen, northern France. Founded in 1801 by Napoleon I, its current building was built between 1880 and 1888 and completely renovated in 1994...
  
  
• Adoration of the Mahgi, Musée d’Orléans
• The Annunciation, Musée du Louvre
  Louvre
  The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...
  
  
• Reparation by the doge of Genoa
  Genoa
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  to Louis XIV, 15 May 1685, Musée de Marseille
• Simon Hurtrelle (1648-1724), Musée de Versailles

External links

• Claude Guy Hallé on base joconde