Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre by Guillaume Voiriot
Born	(1714-03-06)6 March 1714
Died	15 May 1789(1789-05-15) (aged 75)
Nationality	French
Known for	Painting, Drawing, Administrator

Vieillard (1739). Etching by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre from a series entitled Figures drawn from nature from the lower classes of Rome.

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (Paris, 6 March 1714 - Paris, 15 May 1789) was a French painter, draughtsman and administrator.

Life

He was a student of Charles-Joseph Natoire at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and painted a self-portrait in 1732. From 1770 to 1789 he was Premier peintre du Roi.

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre's students included Étienne-Louis Boullée, Louis-Jacques Durameau, Nicolas-René Jollain, Friedrich Reclam, Étienne de La Vallée Poussin, Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, Antoine Vestier, Jean-Baptiste Tierce, and Hughes Taraval.

Gallery

• 
  Old man in a kitchen (c. 1745)
  Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg.
• 
  The Seasons (1749)
  Musée historique lorrain, Nancy.
• 
  Jupiter and Antiope
  Prado, Madrid.
• 
  The Rape of Europa (1750)
  Dallas Museum of Art.
• 
  The Death of Harmonia (c.1740–41) The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bibliography

• Nicolas Lesur & Olivier Aaron, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre 1714-1789 Premier peintre du roi, Paris, Arthena, 2009, ISBN 978-2-903239-41-1
• Marc Furcy-Raynaud, Correspondance de M. d'Angiviller avec Pierre, J. Schemit, Paris, 2 volumes, 1905–07
• Olivier Aaron, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, 1714-1789, Cahiers du Dessin Français, issue 9, Galerie de Bayser, Paris; Ars Libri, Boston, 1993
• Christian Michel, Charles-Nicolas Cochin et l'art des Lumières, École française de Rome, Rome, 1993 (Contains Pierre's letter on the causes of the decadence in the art of France)

External links

• Jean-Baptiste Pierre on Artcyclopedia
• (in French) Jean-Baptiste Pierre on Base Joconde