FRESNOY, CHARLES ALPHONSE DU French painter and writer on art, was born in Paris. He learned the rudiments of design under Perrier and Vouet. At the age of 21 he went to Rome, and there studied Raphael and the antique. He went in 1633 to Venice, and in 1656 returned to France. He died at Villiers le Bel, near Paris. His Latin poem, De arte graph ica, written during his Italian sojourn, was translated into several languages.