Claude Simpol


Claude Simpol, Claude Saint-Pol or Claude Saint-Paul was a French painter.

Life

Born in Clamecy, he studied under Boullogne and frère Luc. He was admitted to the Académie de Saint-Luc on 23 March 1695 and won several prizes at the Académie royale, to which he was admitted on 30 April 1701. Specialising in grisailles, he was listed on 2 March 1709 as still not having provided his academy work, whose subject was Neptune's Dispute with Minerva, or the Naming of the City of Athens.
He was described by Pierre-Jean Mariette as an artist who had "little love for work" and who adopted "bad conduct, which continually forced him to struggle with need:. Even so, he produced paintings for the menagerie at the Palace of Versailles in 1702 and 1703 and produced a May for Notre-Dame in Paris in 1704.
He also produced several drawings to be engraved and a teaching model for a polisher in Paris. He also worked for the publisher Jean Mariette, who commissioned fashion plates, pastoral scenes and religious images from him. He died in Paris.

Drawings