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