Audran family

Germain had four sons, Claude III, Benoit I, Jean, and Louis.

He studied drawing with his uncle Charles Audran in Paris, and subsequently went to Rome.

On his return he was engaged by Le Brun at Paris, and assisted him in his pictures of the 'Passage of the Granicus,' the 'Battle of Arbela,' and in many other of his works; and was an imitator of his style.

He painted also in fresco, under the direction of Le Brun, the chapel of Colbert's Château at Sceaux, the gallery of the Tuileries, the grand staircase at the Palace of Versailles, and other works.

He engraved prints after Paolo Veronese, Poussin, Natoire, Lancret, Watteau, and other French artists.

He afterwards became teacher of Hebrew in the Collège de France, which office he retained until his death in 1819.