# TROY, Jean-François de [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1679–1752 - Profession: painter - School: French ## Biography French painter and tapestry designer, part of a family of painters, his father and teacher, François de Troy being a successful painter of fashionable portraits and Director of the Academy in Paris. His successful career was based initially on large historical and allegorical compositions \( Time Unveiling Truth, National Gallery, London, 1733\), but he is now most highly regarded for his smaller and more spirited scenes of elegant social life. They are among the best of those that rode on the wave of Watteau 's success - indeed The Alarm \(Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1723\) was attributed to Watteau in the 19th century. In 1738 he was appointed Director of the French Academy in Rome, and spent the rest of his life there. ## Related artworks - [A Hunting Meal]() - [An Allegory of Time Unveiling Truth \(detail\)]() - [An Allegory of Time Unveiling Truth]() - [Bacchus and Ariadne]() - [Finding of Moses]() - [Lot with his Daughters]() - [Portrait of Louis XV of France and Maria Anna Victoria of Spain]() - [Portrait of the Marquis of Marigny]() - [Scene in the Park]() - [The Alarm, or the Gouvernante Fidèle]() - [The Judgment of Paris]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()