Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre

Place: Aix-En-Provence

Born: 1714

Death: 1789

Biography:

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre was a French painter, draughtsman and administrator.
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.
The Seasons (1749) Musée historique lorrain, Nancy.
Jupiter and Antiope Prado, Madrid.
The Rape of Europa (1750) Dallas Museum of Art.

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