Louis Ferdinand Elle I (1612 - 1689)

Louis Ferdinand Elle I

Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder was a French portrait painter and printmaker.

Elle was a member of the Guild of St. Luke, but later became a founding member of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1648. He worked all his life in Paris, was a court painter and painted portraits for aristocrats and representatives of the highest nobility, kings and cardinals.

He was the father of the painter Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger (1648-1717).