Louis Galloche

His father finally recognized his taste for painting and offered him a drawing master, who turned out to be a drinker: Galloche left him after six months.

At the age of 20, the young man set about making up for lost time, so that in just four years, study and diligence enabled him to acquire the skills needed to win first prize in painting in 1695 for a large composition.

Galloche had married Louise Catherine Maillard, daughter of a fur merchant who brought a dowry of 40,000 livres.

Church paintings, which were the main occupation of Galloche, these kinds of works were always paid for at a low price, in comparison with paintings of profane subjects, although painters made all the more efforts to bring them to their perfection, as they were destined to remain constantly under the eyes of the public, they provided them with the surest means of establishing or consolidating their reputation and of passing their names to posterity.

The Marquis de Marigny also granted accommodation in the galleries of the Louvre to Galloche, who had always wanted to live in a place from which he could discover a vast expanse of sky to contemplate at his ease the varied effects of nature and compare them in large spaces.

The Abel-François Poisson, Marquis de Marigny, also granted accommodation in the galleries of the Louvre to Galloche, who had always wanted to live in a place from which he could discover a vast expanse of sky to contemplate at his ease the varied effects of nature and compare them in large spaces.

His last three lectures contained remarks on the paintings of the great masters and end with the tracing for the use of pupils, who go to Italy, of the route of their picturesque journey.

Louis Galloche died, aged ninety years and eleven months, in his accommodation in the Louvre galleries, and was buried in the church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois.