Charles Claude Dauphin (1615-20–1677)

• Was a French painter.
• He was born in the duchy of Lorraine, in Nancy.
• He lived most of his adult life in the Savoyard state.
• By about 1640, he had joined in Paris the studio of Simon Vouet.

• In June 1647, he married Marie Du Mouchet, by whom he had two daughters.

• Dauphin went to Turin about the year 1652, and from 1658 he worked for the Prince of Carignano.

• From then on, he worked exclusively for the House of Savoy at Turin and in the churches there.

• He distinguished himself both in portraits of princes, as well as in allegories and mythologies (Royal Palace of Turin) and in altarpieces (in San Francesco da Paola).

• After the death of his wife, Dauphin remarried to Lucrezia Giugali, by whom he had several children.

• By 1660 he was working for the Savoy Court, working for the Great Room and the Room of the Dignitaries' in the Royal Palace of Turin in 1661.

• Dauphin died in Turin in 1677, his widow continued to receive subsidies from the Prince of Carignano in the following years.

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