Hallé was born in Paris on 14 January 1652 to
Daniel Hallé, a painter from
Rouen, and Catherine Coquelet. In 1675, he won the
Prix de Rome with ''Adam's Transgression
. In 1699, Hallé joined the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture with his painting The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg''. Hallé was elected a
professeur of the Académie in 1702 and then a
recteur in 1733. Following the death of
directeur Louis de Boullogne on 28 November 1733, the painter
Hyacinthe Rigaud proposed that the four rectors of the Académie, Hallé,
Nicolas de Largillière,
Guillaume Coustou, and himself, rotate the post. This oligarchy would persist until the election of Coustou as sole director on 5 February 1735. His son was the painter
Noël Hallé and his daughter, Marie-Anne Hallé, married the painter
Jean II Restout. Hallé died in Paris on 5 November 1736. ==Works==