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S. Abondio, Parma, and Entombment, Brera, Milan. His nephew, Cavaliere Euclide Trotti, was his pupil and imitator. He was convicted of high treason when young, and is said to have died of poison in prison.—Lanzi, ii. 445; Ch. Blanc, École lombarde; Lavice, 154.
TROY, FRANÇOIS DE, born at Toulouse
in February, 1654, died in Paris, May
1, 1730. French school; history and portrait
painter, son and pupil of Nicolas de
Troy (portrait painter at Toulouse in 17th
century) and brother of Jean de Troy (history
and portrait painter at Toulouse, born
1640, died 17—); pupil also of Nicolas
Loir and of Claude Lefèbvre. Member of
Academy in 1674, professor in 1693, director
in 1708, and adjunct-rector in 1722.
Works: Portraits of Duchesse d'Orléans,
Jules Mansart, and Nicolas Belle, Versailles
Museum; Bathsheba, Angers Museum;
Woman and Child, Grenoble Museum;
Woman Reading, Marseilles Museum; Ariadne
and Bacchus, Montpellier Museum; Portrait
of Duchesse de Maine, Orléans Museum;
Nunc Dimittis, Assumption, Ascension,
Rouen Museum; Magdalen, Dream of
St. Joseph, Guardian Angel, Toulouse Museum;
Parting of Hector and Andromache,
Troyes Museum; Portrait of Duc de Maine
(1716), Dresden Museum.—Bellier, ii. 597.
TROY, JEAN FRANÇOIS DE, born in
Paris, baptized
Jan. 27, 1679,
died in Rome,
Jan. 26, 1752.
French school;
genre painter,
son and pupil of
François de
Troy. Having
failed to gain
the prix de
Rome (1702) his father sent him at his own
expense to Italy, where he was pensioned by
the king, for three or four years, and divided
his time between work and amusement until
he was forced to return home in 1706.
Member of Academy, 1708; assistant professor,
1716; professor, 1719; in 1727 he
shared with Lemoine a prize competed for
by members of the Academy; in 1737 he
was appointed secretary to the king, and in
1738 director of the French Academy at
Rome. Prince of the Academy of St. Luke.
Works: Henri IV. holding the First Chapter
of the Order of the Holy Ghost (1732),
Swooning of Esther (1737), Toilet of Esther
(1738), Male Portraits (2), Louvre;
Portrait of Marquis de Marignan, two
others, Besançon Museum; Pilate washing
his Hands, Dijon Museum; Apollo and
Diana destroying the Children of Niobe,
Montpellier Museum; Diana at the Bath,
Nancy Museum; Punishment of Psyche,
and others, Nîmes Museum; Portrait of
Abbé Desfriches, Orléans Museum; do. of
Duchesse de la Force, Rouen Museum;
Plague of Marseilles, Marseilles Museum;
Martyrdom of St. Stephen, Christ in the
Garden, Chapel of St. Suaire, Besançon;
Lady at Breakfast in a Park (1723), Berlin
Museum; Lot and
his Daughters, Susanna
and the Elders
(2), Portrait of Artist's
Wife, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg.—Bellier,
ii. 597;
Ch. Blanc, École française; Jal, 1207; Villot,
Cat. Louvre; Lejeune, Guide, i. 350;
Wurzbach, 17.
TROY, WAR OF, ancient pictures of. See Calliphon, Cleanthes, Polygnotus, Theodorus.
TROY, WAR OF, Peter Cornelius and assistants, Glyptothek, Munich; frescos on ceiling and walls of the Trojan Hall (Trojanischer Saal). Ceiling: Centre picture, circular, Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, painted by Schlotthauer; around this, in a circle, are stucco reliefs, by Schwanthaler, of the twelve great gods and goddesses of Greece. Beyond these are four pictures of similar shape and size: Judgment of Paris, Marriage of Menelaus and Helen, Rape of Helen, Sacrifice of Iphigenia, all painted