Nicolas Fouché (1653–1733) was a French painter.
Fouché was born in Troyes, the son of painter Léonard Fouché. He was received into the Académie de Saint-Luc on 15 March 1679. The abbé de Monville, biographer of Pierre Mignard, called Fouché one of his students. Cardinal Melchior de Polignac owned a series of paintings of the eight liberal arts by Fouché, inventorised by his heir, in 1738. He died in Paris.
Works Budapest, Fine Arts Museum, Pomona, oil on canvas, 1, 475 by 1,145 m.
London, Sotheby Tours, musée des Beaux-arts, La Poèsie, at the château de Chanteloup prior to the revolution, oil on canvas, 1,10 by 0,81 m.
Engravers of his work Louis Desplaces (1682–1739) Audran family Gérard Edelinck James Johnson
Bibliography Wildenstein, "Nicolas Fouché peintre de l'Académie de Saint-Luc vers 1650-1733", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, novembre 1964, n° 3. David Brouzet, "La Poésie du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours attribuée à Nicolas Fouché", Les Cahiers d'histoire de l'art, 2007.