Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
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s he said, to live honour-ably at Paris. In 1738, accordingly, he wasappointed director of the Academy of Rome. Noone, says his biographer, was more polite with thefair sex, or more gallant, than De Troy. He fellin love with the widow of an officer of the Chateletwho had a beautiful daughter. The… … JASON AND THE BROOD OF THE DRAGONS TEETH(Sy Jean Francois do Troy.) 92 THE MAGAZINE OF AKT. money. Wishing to occupy himself, he undertookto paint pictures for the kings tapestries at acheaper rate than that which his colleagues approvedof—two instead of three thousand livres. He chosethe stories…
