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

Life

He was a student of

Charles-Joseph Natoire Charles-Joseph Natoire (3 March 1700 – 23 August 1777) was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751–1775. Considered during his lifetime the equal of François Bouch ...

at the

Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (; en, "Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abo ...

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 Étienne-Louis Boullée (12 February 17284 February 1799) was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects. Life Born in Paris, he studied under Jacques-François Blondel, Germain Bof ...

, Louis-Jacques Durameau,

Nicolas-René Jollain Nicolas-René Jollain (; 1732 – 1804) was a French painter. He was a student of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (; en, "Royal Academy of Pa ...

, Friedrich Reclam,

Étienne de La Vallée Poussin Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735–1802), also called Delavallée-Poussin in certain biographies, was a French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes. Life Related on his mother's side to the family of the great pain ...

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (born in Rouen on 11 November 1738 – died in Paris on 7 May 1826) was a writer, illustrator and painter of French history. By 1780 he was an official painter of the King of France. He was the father of art ...

Antoine Vestier Antoine Vestier (1740 – 24 December 1824) was a French miniaturist and painter of portraits, born at Avallon in Burgundy, who trained in the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Pierre. He showed his work at the Salon de la Correspondance, Paris, before ...

Jean-Baptiste Tierce Jean-Baptiste is a male French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following: Persons * Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, was King ...

, and

Hughes Taraval Jean-Hugues Taraval (27 February 1729 – 19 October 1785) was a French painter.Lee 1996.According to the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names OnlineID: 500013688, his name is sometimes given as Hughes Taraval. Taraval was born i ...

Gallery

Image:Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre - Vieil homme dans une cuisine.jpg, ''Old man in a kitchen'' (c. 1745)

Winter Palace The Winter Palace ( rus, Зимний дворец, Zimnij dvorets, p=ˈzʲimnʲɪj dvɐˈrʲɛts) is a palace in Saint Petersburg that served as the official residence of the Russian Emperor from 1732 to 1917. The palace and its precincts now ...

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. Image:Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre - Les Saisons.jpg, ''The Seasons'' (1749)
Musée historique lorrain, Nancy. Image:Júpiter y Antíope, por Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre.jpg, ''

Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousand ...

and Antiope''

Prado The Prado Museum ( ; ), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to house one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the ...

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

. Image:Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre - Le Rapt d'Europe.jpg, ''The Rape of

Europa Europa may refer to: Places * Europe * Europa (Roman province), a province within the Diocese of Thrace * Europa (Seville Metro), Seville, Spain; a station on the Seville Metro * Europa City, Paris, France; a planned development * Europa Clif ...

'' (1750)

Dallas Museum of Art The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Art ...

. File:The Death of Harmonia MET DP335085.jpg, '' The Death of Harmonia'' (c.1740–41)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

Bibliography

* Nicolas Lesur & Olivier Aaron, ''Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre 1714-1789 Premier peintre du roi'', Paris, Arthena, 2009, *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

Jean-Baptiste Pierre on Base Joconde
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