Antoine de Favray
{{Short description|French painter (1706–1798)}}
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| birth_date = 8 September 1706
| birth_place = Bagnolet, France
| death_date = 9 February 1798
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Chevalier Antoine de Favray ({{IPA|fr|ɑ̃twan də favʁɛ}}; 8 September 1706, Bagnolet – 9 February 1798, Malta) was a French painter noted for his portraits of personalities of the Ottoman Empire, as well as paintings of Grand Masters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.[https://books.google.com/books?id=o1QO1Tk-FsMC&pg=PA132 The Rough Guide to Malta & Gozo by Victor Paul Borg, p.132]
Life and career
In 1762, Antoine de Favray moved to Constantinople, where he spent nine years. He painted numerous genre scenes of the everyday life in Turkey under Louis XVI, and he also depicted locals and foreign dignitaries. Especially notable are a portrait of French ambassador Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1717-1787), who was living in Constantinople between 1754 and 1768, and a portrait of Gravier's wife Annette Duvivier de Testa (1730-1798). She had previously been married to Testa, a merchand and member of a prominent Genoese family who settled in Pera for several centuries. Favray portrayed both the ambassador and his wife in rich Turkish dress.{{cite web|url=http://www.thomashope.org.uk/beechey.htm|title=A Visual Study of Thomas Hope|website=Thomas Hope|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402145401/http://www.thomashope.org.uk/beechey.htm|archivedate=2 April 2015}}
See also
References
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Gallery
File:Antoine de Favray - Portrait of Charles Gravier Count of Vergennes and French Ambassador, in Turkish Attire - Google Art Project.jpg|French ambassador Charles Gravier de Vergennes in Ottoman dress, painted by Antoine de Favray, 1766, Pera Museum, Istanbul.
File:Antoine de Favray - The Mirabita Sisters - Google Art Project.jpg|The Mirabita Sisters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
File:Antoine de Favray - Portrait of the Countess of Vergennes in Turkish Attire - Google Art Project.jpg|Antoine de Favray - Portrait of the Countess of Vergennes in Turkish Attire, Pera Museum, Istanbul
File:Audience-of-Charles-Gravier-Comte-de-Vergennes-with-The-Sultan-Osman-III-in-Constantinople-1755.jpg|Audience of Charles de Vergennes with Sultan Osman III in 1755.
File:A History of the Knights of Malta 421.jpg|Grand Master Philippe Villiers de l'Isle Adam Taking Possession of Mdina
File:Antoine de Favray - The Visit of Maltese Ladies.jpg|Antoine de Favray - The Visit of Maltese Ladies
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Category:People from Seine-Saint-Denis
Category:Artists from Île-de-France
Category:18th-century French painters
Category:French Orientalist painters
Category:18th-century French male artists
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