- Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (
Paris , c. 1715–Amsterdam ,19 November 1783 ) was a French painter who specialized in portraits executed inpastel s.Perronneau began his career as an engraver, apparently studying with
Laurent Cars , whose portrait he drew, and working for the entrepreneurial printsellerGabriel Huquier , rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, making his first portraits in oils, and especially in pastels, in the 1740s. His career was much in the shadow of the master of the French pastel portrait,Maurice Quentin de La Tour . In the Salon of 1750, Perronneau exhibited his pastel portrait ofMaurice-Quentin de la Tour , but found to his dismay that La Tour was exhibited his own self portrait, perhaps a malicious confrontation to demonstrate his superiority in the technique.He made his Salon debut with a pastel portrait in 1746 and received full membership in the
Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1753, with portraits of fellow artistJean-Baptiste Oudry and the sculptorLambert-Sigisbert Adam , both now at theLouvre Museum . After 1779 he no longer exhibited in the Paris Salons, but the clientele in his portraits reveal how widely he travelled in the provinces of France, with a group of sitters connected withOrléans , but also inToulouse ,Bordeaux ,Lyon . Farther afield he may have been inTurin andRome , and inSpain ,Hamburg ,Poland ,Russia andEngland .He died in Amsterdam virtually unknown, according to his biographers.
References
* [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=700&page=1 Getty Museum: Jean-Baptiste Perronneau]
* [http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?229070 National Gallery of Art, Washington: Jean-Baptiste Perronneau]
* [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/artistWorks?searchField=&searchString=&workBatchIndex=0&artistBatchIndex=1&artistName=PERRONNEAU%2C%20Jean%2DBaptiste&indexLetter=P National Gallery, London: Jean-Baptiste Perronneau] The National Gallery has Perronneau's masterful portrait of Jacques Cazotte
* [http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/Portal.lut?page_id=6643&document_type_id=4&document_id=16967&portlet_id=15117&multileveldocument_sheet_id=2047 Musée Cognaq-Jay, Paris: Jean-Baptiste Perronneau] : Portrait of the connoisseur Charles Lenormant du Coudray, shown at the Salon of 1769.
* [http://www.wengraf.com/wengraf/peroneau.htm Attribution of a portrait of Crozat to Perronneau]
* [http://www.pastellists.com Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition]
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