{{Short description|French painter}} {{Expand French|topic=bio|date=January 2024|Georges Lallemand}} thumb|250px|''The Mayor and Aldermen of Paris'', 1611 (Musée Carnavalet). '''Georges Lallemand''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒɔʁʒ lalmɑ̃}}; before 1575–1636) was a French artist. His name is sometimes given as "Lallemant".
==Life== Lallemand was born in Nancy in around 1575.<ref name=met/> Nothing is known of his artistic education, but he is often assumed to have been a pupil of Jacques Bellange, whose work seems to have had a significant impact on him.<ref name=met/> He moved to Paris in about 1601 and by 1605 had established a successful studio, where his pupils included Philippe de Champaigne, Laurent de la Hyre and Nicolas Poussin.<ref name=15th/>
His style was eclectic, combining Flemish realist and mannerist influences.<ref name=met/> Few of his paintings have been traced, much of his work having been dispersed when church property was seized during the French Revolution. His earliest known work, ''The Mayor and Aldermen of Paris'' (Musée Carnevalet) dates from 1611.<ref name=met/> He was appointed ''Peintre ordinaire du roi'' in 1626.<ref name=met/>During the last few years of his life he received commissions for altarpieces and tapestries for the cathedral of Notre Dame, and for six large paintings for the Parisian church of Saint Geneviève-du-Mont.<ref name=met>{{cite book|pages=114–7|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|location=New York|title=Masterworks from the Musée des Beaux–Arts, Lille|year=1992|type=Exhibition Catalogue|isbn=978-0810964174}}</ref> His work can also be seen in the Église St-Joseph-des-Carmes in the Baroque Chapelle Ste-Anne. There is an ''Adoration of the Magi'', in the collection of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille.<ref name=lille>{{cite web|url=http://www.pba-lille.fr/spip.php?article45 |title=L'Adoration des Mages |publisher=Palais de Beaux Arts, Lille |access-date=31 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150117064233/http://www.pba-lille.fr/spip.php?article45 |archive-date=17 January 2015 }}</ref> and another version of the same subject in the Hermitage.<ref name=met/>
His work is mostly known from a series of chiaoscuro woodcuts made by Ludolph Büsinck in the 1620s after his smaller religious and genre compositions.<ref name=15th>{{cite book|first=Egbert|last=Haverkamp-Begemann|title=Fifteenth to eighteenth century European drawings : Central Europe, the Netherlands, France, England|year=1998|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art [u.a.]|location=New York|isbn=9780691048727|page=296}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lallemand, Georges}} Category:Artists from Nancy, France Category:Painters from Grand Est Category:1570s births Category:1635 deaths Category:16th-century French painters Category:17th-century French painters