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Poilly decided to travel to Rome at his own expense in
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Abecedario de P. J. Mariette et autres notes inédites de cet amateur sur les arts et les artists: Ouvrage publié d'après les manuscrits autographes conservés au cabinet des estampes de la
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261:, giving him control of the Prix de Pome funds. Hardouin-Mansart ignored Poilly's right to a scholarship and instead channeled funds to his own favorites and (in a cost-cutting move) to painters already in Rome who did not require travel expenses.
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wrote that the young Poilly (then 21 or 22) displayed "a sense for color so precise and so deeply understood that one would believe the work must come from one of our famous
Moderns if one had not seen him paint it."
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215:. The prize was especially coveted because the winner traditionally received a scholarship to live and study in Rome for a number of years at the expense of the King of France.
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undertook to have engravings made of the best paintings in France; Poilly (without credit) executed the drawings and oversaw the work of the engravers. The result was
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