Raymond Lafage

Raymond Lafage (1656, Lisle-sur-Tarn – 1684, near Toulouse) was a Baroque French artist, notable for his mythological prints and drawings.

[1] He travelled to Italy to make drawings after Italian masters, and is registered as having worked in Toulouse.

He planned a second sojourn in Italy, but died en route in Lyon.

[1] According to Houbraken he was able to draw a crowd in a tavern with his ingenious method of drawing a complicated version of the Pharaoh entering the red sea in two hours, from what appeared to be random scratches on a piece of paper.

[2] Houbraken became familiar with his other work through the prints published by Jan van der Brugge, who made a series titled "Effigies Raymundi la Fage" with engravings by Cornelis Vermeulen, Gérard Audran, Franz Ertinger, and Charles Louis Simonneau.