Trained in his native country, he spent most of his life and career in Verona, Italy.
As a boy he apprenticed with the painter Charles Le Brun and in his teens was commissioned to create works for Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV of France.
He adopted the italianized version of his name, Ludovico, during his early years in Italy and it is by that name that he is chiefly known.
He traveled back and forth between France and Italy over the next seven years, ultimately settling in Venice in 1678.
He visited his family in Paris in 1704 and in 1711 traveled to Vienna, where he decorated the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy.