French painter and engraver, the son of a Protestant painter on glass. His most famous work is The Crucifixion of St. Peter made for the church of Notre Dame. In Rome he studied the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and Caravaggio. He has a very eclectic range of styles - classical ruins landscapes (inspired by Poussin), intimate portraits, mythological history paintings- however he is best- known for his large Baroque-style religious and classical paintings.