(b ?Lyon, ?1645; d Paris, 1721). French painter. He is recorded in Rome between 1672 and 1679, in Modena in 1677, and he probably also worked in Florence. On his return to France most of his career was spent in Lyon, where he was renowned as a history painter in the 1680s. He produced altarpieces such as the Road to Emmaus (Lyon, Ste Blandine) and became the principal collaborator of Thomas Blanchet on a number of decorative schemes, including work at the Palais de Roanne (now Palais de Justice). The most important of these, however, was a series of paintings (now Lyon, Mus. B.-A.) for the refectory of the Benedictine abbey of St Pierre. Here he executed a Last Supper, a Multiplication of the Loaves, an Assumption of the Virgin, an Ascension of Christ and an Elias between 1684 and 1686. The style of these powerful canvases, with figure groups brilliantly but irregularly lit against dark and brooding backgrounds, is suggestive both of 16th-century Venetian prototypes and of the sharp chiaroscuro of Simon Vouet’s early Italian works.