Charles Parrocel
Specialized in battle and hunt scenes
Charles Parrocel was a French painter and engraver and a specialist in battle and hunt paintings. Parrocel was born in Paris, and studied under his father, Joseph Parrocel, until his death. Parrocel then became a pupil along with Bon Boullogne of Charles de La Fosse. In 1712 Parrocel moved to Italy, where he attended the Académie de France from 1713 to 1716 as an Academy pensioner, or scholar. Returning to Paris in 1721 Parrocel was commissioned by King Louis XV to complete several paintings of the Turkish ambassador's trip to Paris. These paintings where later recreated as tapestries at the Gobelins manufactory in Paris. During that same year of 1721 Parrocel was also to become a member of the Académie Royale in Paris, eventually becoming a professor there in 1745. He died in Paris.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Joseph Parrocel Master
- Charles de La Fosse Master
- Francesco Giuseppe Casanova Student
Fellow student
Parent child
- Joseph Parrocel Parent
Artworks by this artist (23 total)
- Bust of Soldier
- Knights on Horseback
- The Penitent St. Mary Magdalen 1742
- Je zwei beisammen stehende Pferde
- Scene of Military Life; A General Giving Orders 1744
- Trois soldats casqués à cheval
- Head of a Greek ca 1730
- Head of a Soldier
- Reitergefecht vor einer Brücke, die auf eine Burg zuführt
- Soldier camp
- Ostrich Hunt
- Abhaltung eines Ordenskapitel mit schriftlicher Erklärung
- Drei Frauen bei einem Kinde beschäftigt
- Falkenjägerin zu Pferde mit einem Diener zu Fuß
- Stehender Soldat in Rückenansicht ca 1723
- Man Standing, Holding a Sword
- Interior Scene with Soldiers at a Table (c. 1730-1740(？)) @Drawings
- Marketenderzelt mit trinkender Reitergruppe
- Reitergefecht, rechts eine Burg
- Soldaten zu Pferde und zu Fuß bei einem Schanzkorbe mit Frauen und Kindern