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Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

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

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

(1714-03-06)6 March 1714

15 May 1789(1789-05-15) (aged 75)

Painting, Drawing, 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.

Old man in a kitchen (c. 1745)
Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg.

Old man in a kitchen (c. 1745) Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg.

The Seasons (1749)
Musée historique lorrain, Nancy.

The Seasons (1749) Musée historique lorrain, Nancy.

Jupiter and Antiope
Prado, Madrid.

Jupiter and Antiope Prado, Madrid.

The Rape of Europa (1750)
Dallas Museum of Art.

The Rape of Europa (1750) Dallas Museum of Art.

The Death of Harmonia (c.1740–41) The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Death of Harmonia (c.1740–41) The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nicolas Lesur & Olivier Aaron, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre 1714-1789 Premier peintre du roi, Paris, Arthena, 2009,  978-2-903239-41-1

ISBN

Marc Furcy-Raynaud, Correspondance de avec Pierre, J. Schemit, Paris, 2 volumes, 1905–07

M. d'Angiviller

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)

Jean-Baptiste Pierre on Artcyclopedia

(in French)

Jean-Baptiste Pierre on Base Joconde