Samuel Massé (1672–1753)

• Was a French painter.
• Born in Tours.
• A student at the Royal Academy between 1690 and 1698.
• Massé was approved in 1701, the year he became the godfather of the daughter of the famous architect of the Louvre colonnade, Charles Perrault, then received a history painter in 1705.
• In 1725 he appeared at the Exhibitions of the Youth, where he presented two subjects from Cupid and Psyche.
• In 1727, Massé had the honour of taking part in the famous competition between the twelve best history painters of the Royal Academy, in which he presented Juno Orders Aeolus to Destroy Aeneas' Fleet (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy).
• Participating in the Salons de l'Académie, from 1737 to 1745, he illustrated mythology more willingly than Sacred History.
• Samuel Massé's paintings are rare, twenty-seven works have already been identified; nine of them are kept in museums, churches or institutions.
• His work is dominated by themes of seduction and episodes celebrating the loves of the gods.
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