AUGUSTIN PAJOU (1730-1809) Portrait of Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1791) Patinated plaster (75 x 49 x 28 cm) Los Angeles County Museum of Art To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-93), whose literary career was surpassed by his studies in astronomy and its history, was elected to the …
Tag: French rococo
The Laundress
JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE (1725-1805) The Laundress (1761) Oil on canvas (40.5 x 32 cm) Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" During the last half of the 18th century, Greuze was the most famous and successful exponent of genre painting in France. He normally …
Charles Etienne Jordan
ANTOINE PESNE (1683-1757) Portrait of Charles Etienne Jordan (1740) Oil on canvas 145 x 110 cm Huis Doorn, The Netherlands To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "open in a new tab" Antoine Pesne, a nephew of the history painter Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716), went to Italy in 1704 after winning the prestigious …
Gerard Meerman
JEAN-BAPTISTE PERRONEAU (1715-1783) Portrait of Gerard Meerman (c.1761) Pastel on paper 88 x 68 cm Museo Meermanno-Westreenianum, The Hague To enlarge the image right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" In the 1750s, two of the best portrait painters of the XVIIIth century; Jean-Baptiste Perroneau and the Swiss Jean-Etienne Liotard came to the …
Maria Josepha of Saxony
JEAN-MARTIAL FREDOU (1710-1795) Portrait of Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France (1760) Oil on canvas 64 x 54 cm Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "open in a new tab" Unfortunately, we do not know who was creator of this beautiful portrait is, according to the records of …
Old Masters 