JEAN-BAPTISTE-MARIE PIERRE | A SCULPTOR IN HIS STUDIO

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, sculptor and Rector of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (1704-1778), Paris;

His estate sale, Le Brun, Paris, 10 August 1778, lot 17 (sold in the same lot as a pendant to L'Atelier du peintre by François Boucher, fig. 1);

Where acquired by his son Pierre-Hippolyte Lemoyne (1748-1828), Paris;

His estate sale, Duchesne, Paris, 19 May 1828, lot 75;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, Ader, 26 March 1953, lot 111;

New York art market;

Private collection, New York, by 1985;

By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 20 May 1993, lot 40 (where reproduced on the cover of the catalogue);

There acquired. 

J-B. Le Blanc, Lettre sur l'exposition des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, etc. de l'année 1747. Et en général sur l'utilité de ce genre d'Expositions. A Monsieur R.D.R., Paris 1747, reprinted Slatkine Reprints, Geneva 1970, p. 81;

L. Réau, Histoire de la peinture français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris-Brussels 1927, p. 49;

M. Halbout, J.B.M. Pierre, vie et oeuvre, essai de catalogue des peintures et des dessins, Paris 1970, cat. no. 35;

O. Aaron, "Pierre, Premier peintre du roi," in L'Estampille-L'Objet d'Art, June 1995, p. 47, reproduced;

N. Lesur and O. Aaron, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre 1714 - 1789: Premier peintre du roi, Paris 2009, cat. no. P.94, pp. 248-9, reproduced pp. 183 and 249. 

ENGRAVED

Marie-Madeleine Igonet, May 1752 (as a pendant to L'Atelier du peintre after the painting by François Boucher).