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André Bouys

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Self-portrait with his first wife Marie-Anne Rousseau (1713)

André Bouys (1656–1740) was a French portrait painter and mezzotint engraver.

Biography

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Bouys was born at Hyères about the year 1656. He studied under François de Troy, and acquired sufficient reputation to gain admission into the Academy in 1688, when he presented a portrait of the painter Charles de La Fosse, now at Versailles, where there are likewise two portraits of himself, one of them representing also his first wife. He died in Paris in 1740, having engraved several portraits, among which are the following:

Marin Marais (1704)
Reunion of musicians (c. 1710)
Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans, 1700
Portrait of Anne Grené de Préfontaines and her husband Claude Perrinet de Longuefin

References

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Bouys, André". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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