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F. Perrier (1590 in Pontarlier – 1650 in Paris), a painter and etcher, is remembered for his two collections of prints after antique sculptures, the
Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum
quae temporis dentem invidium evasere
(1638)
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Icones et segmenta
quae Romae adhuc extant
(1645).
They provided visual repertories of classical models for generations of European artists and connoisseurs.
During the years 1620–1625, Perrier resided in Roma, where he took for his model the practitioner of academic baroque classicism, Giovanni Lanfranco.
On his return to France, following a brief stay at Lyon Perrier settled in Paris in 1630, working in the classsicising circle of Simon Vouet.
In 1632–1634, Perrier had for a pupil Charles Le Brun, destined to become the central figure of official French painting in the age of Louis XIV.
Perrier returned to Rome in 1635, remaining there for the next decade, which saw his decors for palazzo Peretti and the publication in Paris of his great repertory of images.
In 1645, once again in Paris Perrier painted the ceiling of the gallery of the Hôtel de La Vrillière, now the seat of the Banque de France and worked with Eustache Le Sueur on the cabinet de l’amour in the Hôtel Lambert.
In 1648, he was one of the twelve founders of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
In 1869, the French city of Mâcon founded its Musée des Beaux-arts with a bequest of eight canvases by Perrier.
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