Guillaume Courtois (1628–1679)

• Was a Franc-comtois-Italian painter, draughtsman and etcher.
• He was the brother of the painters Jacques Courtois and Jean-François Courtois.

• Guillaume was born in Saint-Hippolyte (County of Burgundy), in present-day France, as the son of the obscure painter Jean-Pierre Courtois.

• The father and his sons went to Italy circa 1636 when Guillaume was still a child.

• They travelled to Milan, Bologna, Venice, Florence and Siena.
• It is possible Guillaume Courtois settled in Rome by 1638 where he entered the studio of Pietro da Cortona.
• Here he is supposed to have supplemented his training by drawing from life and copying works of Giovanni Lanfranco and Andrea Sacchi.
• He studied also the Bolognese painters and Guercino.
• Guillaume Courtois spent most of his active life in Rome where he died of gout on 14 or 15 June 1679.

• Jean-Blaise Chardon and Antonio Dupré were his pupils.

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