Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre
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Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre | |
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 Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre by Guillaume Voiriot | |
| Born | 6 March 1714 |
| Died | 15 May 1789 (aged 75) |
| Known for | Painting, Drawing, Administrator |
Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (6 March 1714 – 15 May 1789) was a French painter, draughtsman and administrator.
Life[edit]
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[edit]
Old man in a kitchen (c. 1745)
Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg.
The Seasons (1749)
Musée historique lorrain, Nancy.
The Rape of Europa (1750)
Dallas Museum of Art.
The Death of Harmonia (c.1740–41) The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bibliography[edit]
- 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)
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