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a French painter, was born in 1692, and was a son of Noel by a second marriage. He received his first instruction from his father, after which he studied in the Academy of Paris, and in 1728 was elected a member of that institution. His best works are the ceiling of the chapel of the Virgin in the Church of St. Saviour, and the altar-piece in the same chapel, representing The Assumption. He died in 1735. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.