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Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre
Guillaume Voiriot - Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre.jpg
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre by Guillaume Voiriot
Born (1714-03-06)6 March 1714
Died 15 May 1789(1789-05-15) (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.



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