| Jean-Baptiste Marie Fouque | |
| Birth Date: | July 2, 1819 |
| Birth Place: | Arles, France |
| Death Place: | Lorient, France |
| Field: | Painting |
| Training: | François Huard Léon Cogniet |
Jean-Baptiste Marie Fouque (July 2, 1819[1] – April 11, 1880), also anglicised as Jean Marius Fouque or Marius Fouque, was a French painter specialising in portraits and mythological subjects.
Born in Arles in 1819, the son of the locksmith Honorat Fouque and Marguerite Barbier, Jean-Baptiste studied painting under the Arlesian painter and archaeologist François Huard. He was awarded a scholarship from the city council of Arles, to study at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. There, he studied under the direction of Joseph-Léon de Lestang-Parade and Léon Cogniet. In 1854 he married Marie Perrine Leray, a seamstress from Rennes. The couple had two sons: Émile, born in 1849, and Adrien, born in 1855.
The first exhibition of Fouque's art was in 1846, and resulted in a steady stream of commissions for the government of the Second French Empire. He produced portraits of both Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie de Montijo, as well as many foreign nobles and royals such as Princess Tatiana Alexandrovna Yusupova of Russia and Rama V, the King of Siam.
In addition to his portraiture, Fouque painted many allegorical and religious works. In 1863, he returned to Arles to paint several altarpieces and other works for the Church of Saint Trophime and the Church of Saint Cesaire.
Several of Fouque's paintings are in the collection of the Hermitage Museum.[2]