{{Short description|French painter (1684–1754)}}
[[File:Louis Caravaque, Portrait of Empress Anna Ioannovna (1730).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Portrait of Empress Anna Ioannovna, 1730. Now at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.]]
'''Louis Caravaque''' ({{IPA|fr|lwi kaʁavak}}; 1684–1754) was a French portrait painter. He worked and labored in areas like Russia.
==Life==
Caravaque was born in 1686 in Marseilles, Provence. He was born into a family of a painter-decorator who specialized in painting ships from Gascony. Caravaque followed in his father's footsteps, starting work at the Arsenal Galeries in Marseille. In 1715 in Paris he attracted the attention of Peter Lefort with his portraits, with whom he concluded a contract to work in Russia for three years as a painter and with the additional obligation of training Russian pupils.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Ilʹina|first1=T. V.|title=Russkoe iskusstvo XVIII veka : uchebnik dli︠a︡ bakalavriata i magistratury|last2=Ильина|first2=Т. В.|date=2015|others=E. I︠U︡. Stani︠u︡kovich-Denisova, Е. Ю. Станюкович-Денисова|isbn=978-5-9916-3527-1|location=Moskva|oclc=898185853}}</ref> He went to Russia, and painted a portrait of Peter the Great at Astrakhan in 1716. It was engraved by Massard and by Langlois. Caravaque lived on Vasilyevsky Island near the Menshikov Palace, in his own house presented to him in 1722 by Peter I.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Энциклопедия Санкт-Петербурга|url=http://encspb.ru/object/2805583563|access-date=2021-12-27|website=encspb.ru}}</ref> He also lived in Moscow.
During Anna of Russia's reign, he was appointed "the first painter at court" (at first with a salary of 1500 rubles, later worked up to 2000 rubles a year), he painted her coronation portrait and took part in the decoration of the coronation celebrations. He remained as a goffmiller under Anna Leopoldovna and Elizaveta Petrovna. He became the author of the official "approved" image of Elisabeth as the new Empress. In May 1743 he was entrusted with a responsible order - to execute fourteen portraits of Elizabeth for Russian embassies abroad.<ref>{{Cite web|title="Счастливая звезда" придворного живописца в России. Людмила Маркина - ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЕ ПАРАЛЛЕЛИ - АВСТРИЯ И РОССИЯ - Австрия - Европа - Россия в красках|url=http://ricolor.org/europe/avstria/je/ist/neff/|access-date=2021-12-27|website=ricolor.org}}</ref> He also participated in the decoration of her coronation.
He died in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 9, 1754.<ref name="bryan">{{harvnb|Bryan|1886}}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery style="margin:2px auto;"> File:Louis Caravaque 005.jpg|Portrait of Peter the Great. File:Карвак - Портрет царевны Елизаветы Петровны.jpg|Portrait of the future Empress Elizabeth as an Olympic goddess. Now at the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. File:Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by L.Caravaque (1745, Gatchina museum).jpg|Portrait of Catherine II of Russia, 1745. Now at the Gatchina Palace. </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== * {{Bryan (3rd edition)|title=Caravaque, Louis |volume=1 }} * {{cite Efron|Каравак, Людовик}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20141208130923/http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/collection/_show/author/_id/164 Tretyakov Gallery]
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