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Lafage [La Fage], Raymond
(b Lisle-sur-Tarn, 1656; d Lyon, 1684). French draughtsman and engraver. He was the son of a minor painter and was said to have learnt to draw by copying engravings after some of Francesco Primaticcio’s drawings for the decorations at the château of Fontainebleau. He then worked for a surgeon, where he learnt anatomy, before going to Toulouse aged about 17 to work for a painter of frescoes called Delbosc. By 1678 he was in Paris, where he entered a drawing competition at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. In 1679 he went to Rome, financed by Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, a government official at Montauban, and in the same year won joint first prize at the Accademia di San Luca. In Rome he acquired some reputation for his drawing skill, but in the competition of 1680 he came last and left for France. He arrived in Aix-en-Provence, where Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Aguilles, a counsellor in the Provence parliament, commissioned him to do 12 drawings, mainly of religious subjects.
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