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
- Soldier camp
- Ostrich Hunt
- Trois soldats casqués à cheval
- Cavallery attack
- Soldaten zu Pferde und zu Fuß bei einem Schanzkorbe mit Frauen und Kindern
- Abhaltung eines Ordenskapitel mit schriftlicher Erklärung
- Zechende Soldaten vor einem Wirtshaus ca 1728
- Stehender Soldat in Rückenansicht ca 1723
- Drei Frauen bei einem Kinde beschäftigt
- Reitergefecht, rechts eine Burg
- A Man Seated on the Edge of a Table 18th century
- Reitergefecht vor einer Brücke, die auf eine Burg zuführt
- Head of a Greek ca 1730
- Head of a Soldier
- Interior Scene with Soldiers at a Table (c. 1730-1740(？)) @Drawings
- Knights on Horseback
- Je zwei beisammen stehende Pferde
- Falkenjägerin zu Pferde mit einem Diener zu Fuß
- Scene of Military Life; A General Giving Orders 1744
- The Penitent St. Mary Magdalen 1742