Hugues Taraval

[1][2] Taraval was born in Paris, the son of the French painter Guillaume Taraval, who moved his family to Stockholm in 1732 to work on the decoration of the new Royal Palace.

[1] There he studied with Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre and Charles-André van Loo.

In Rome he was a pupil of Charles-Joseph Natoire at the Académie française.

His reception piece is a Triumph of Bacchus, one of the elements of the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre.

[1] Media related to Hugues Taraval at Wikimedia Commons

The Triumph of Amphitrite by Hughes Taraval, Mead Art Museum , 1780
Hugues Taraval, L’Automne or Le Triomphe de Bacchus et d’ Ariane , 1769, Galerie d'Apollon , Louvre