Jacques Hupin

(active in the mid 1600s)

Author's artworks

17th Century French

Painter of still lifes.

Practically nothing is known about this artist. The only mention discovered by Jacques Bousquet in the Stati d’anime, the census made by the Roman clergy of residents in The Eternal City, indicates the presence of Jacques Hupin in Rome in 1649.

Hupin’s paintings depict goldsmithing items arranged on a table covered by a rug with a red background. His brushwork manages to depict to perfection the texture of the
. His subject matter suggests a connection with Meiffren Conte and the painters active in Bergamo at that period, such as Baschenis or Bettera. He is also close in style to an anonymous Italian artist known as the Master of
.