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[[File:Nicolas Chapron - The Union of Venus and Bacchus (1639).JPG|thumb|right|300px|''The Union of Venus and Bacchus'', 1639, [[Dallas Museum of Art]]]]<br />
[[File:Nicolas Chapron - The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple - 70.19 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg|thumb|''The [[Presentation of Mary|Presentation of the Virgin]] in the Temple'', [[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]]]]<br />
''' Nicolas Chaperon''' (bapt. 19 October 1612, in [[Châteaudun]] – 1656 in [[Lyon]]) was a French painter, draughtsman and engraver, a student in Paris of [[Simon Vouet]] whose style he adopted before his stay in [[Rome]] (1642–51) in the studio of [[Nicolas Poussin]], when his approach developed further.<br />
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Chaperon made a name for himself with his suite of engravings after the [[Raphael]] Loggie of the Vatican, Rome, 1649, but art historians remember him primarily for the stream of fulminating invective with which Poussin in his correspondence with [[Paul Fréart de Chantelou]] described this unruly and vindictive practician who refused to carry through his copy of a ''Transfiguration.'' So little is known of Chaperon that this episode stands out. <br />
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In 1653-55 the consuls de Lyon invited him to decorate the ''[[Seat of local government|hôtel de ville]]'' but he died shortly after he arrived, and the commission passed to Thomas Blanchet. <br />
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Most of his paintings were optimistically attributed to Poussin, and disguised under that sellable name entered collections in the US; thus, when the [[Musée du Louvre]] purchased its first painting by Chaperon in 2005, it was at a New York auction. Jacques Thuillier’s publication of Chaperon's signed and dated Compiègne altarpiece, a ''Presentation of the Virgin'', began the reassessment of this ''[[Poussinist]]e''.<br />
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==Selected works==<br />
All works are in oil on canvas unless otherwise noted.<br />
*''The Vow of Midas'', Kunstmuseum, Basel, 1,00 x 1,36.<br />
*'' The Nurture of Jupiter'', Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, 0,99 x 1,36.<ref>[http://www.ackland.org/tours/classes/chaperon.html ''The Nurture of Jupiter''].</ref><br />
*''Presentation of the Virgin'' (1639), Chapelle Saint-Nicolas, Compiègne. An oil sketch is at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.<br />
*''The Alliance of Bacchus and Venus'', Dallas Museum of Art, 0,76 x 0,98. the painting was identified in 1960, on the basis of a signed engraving of it.<br />
*''Bacchanale,'' Musée Magnin, Dijon.<br />
*''Drunken Silenus,'' [[Uffizi]], 1,15 x 0,84.<br />
*'' Holy Family with SS Elizabeth and the infant John the Baptist'' Gosford House, East Lothian, Scotland (The Earl of Wemyss and March) 1,46 x 1,20.. A preparatory drawing at the [[Musée du Louvre]].<br />
*''Penitent Magdalene'', *Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 0.75 x 0.61, Purchased 2006.<br />
*''Moses and the Bronze Serpent'', Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, 1,225 x 1, 715. Purchased 1998.<br />
*''Venus, Mercury and Cupid'', Musée du Louvre, 1,10 x 1,34 Purchased 2005.<ref>[http://www.latribunedelart.com/Nouvelles_breves_2005/Chaperon_2801189.htm ''Venus, Mercury and Cupid''.]</ref><br />
*''Childhood of Bacchus'', Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers.<br />
*''Presentation of the Virgin'', Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, 0,635 x 0,480.<br />
*''The Deluge'', Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, 0,998 x 1,385.<br />
*''Bacchus and Ariadne'', formerly collection François Heim.<br />
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'''Drawings''' by Nicolas Chaperon are in the collections of Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie; Bibliothèque nationale de France; École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts; Musée du Louvre<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*Sylvain Laveissière, Dominique Jacquot, Guillaume Kazerouni, ''Nicolas Chaperon, 1612-1654/1655. Du graveur au peintre retrouvé,'' Nîmes Musées / Actes Sud, 1999. {{ISBN|2-7427-2460-5}}<br />
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