Jean-Baptiste Le Tellier is probably the artist who was furthest from Hall’s technique. His use of a monochromatic blue-grey colourway and distinctively plastic form was entirely different, but his way of freely applying the colour is still a lesson from the Swede. Le Tellier’s pictures often have such a genre style that it is impossible to be sure whether they are actually a portrait déguisé (“disguised portrait”) of a real person, or a purely mythological subject. Le Tellier is a fairly anonymous person. He was the child of an artist, protected by the engraver Le Bas following the death of his father, and studied under Augustin. Le Tellier worked for Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, but very little is otherwise known about his life.