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[Martin des Batailles] (b Paris, 1659; d Paris, 1735). French painter. According to Pierre-Jean Mariette, he trained in the studio of Laurent de La Hyre (1606–56). There the Marquis de Vauban noticed his skill in making accurate drawings of plans and elevations of fortified sites and introduced him to the battle painter Adam Frans van der Meulen, who from 1664 was employed by Louis XIV, mainly to paint scenes commemorating Louis’s military triumphs, many of which were used as tapestry designs. He quickly became van der Meulen’s closest and chief collaborator. Indeed, the closeness of collaboration between the master and his pupils created a homogeneous style, in which the hand of the individual is difficult to determine. On van der Meulen’s death (1690), Martin and Sauveur Lecomte (?1659–95) were ordered to complete the series of twelve paintings showing the King’s Conquests, seven of which were still unfinished. On Lecomte’s premature death in 1695...