# Portrait of the Lawyer Daniel Jousse [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PERRONNEAU, Jean-Baptiste]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 80 x 64 cm ## Commentary Perronneau studied engraving with Laurent Cars and then painting with Natoire. He was accepted by the Académie Royale in 1746 and became a full member 1753. But his rivalry with the pastellist Quentin de La Tour led him to seek a clientele outside Paris, especially it seems in Orléans. He painted mostly the senior officials, and the upper bourgeoisie, engineers, doctors and clergy. On the other hand he seems to have been particularly favoured and respected by his own colleagues, and painted portraits of Gilequian, Drouais and Oudry and of the engravers Cars and Huquier, the sculptor Adam the elder, the architects Chevotet and Soyer. His strong firm almost coarse \(and maybe rather less flattering\) style may have been appreciated better by these connoisseurs than the slightly slicker and more perfectionist style of La Tour, who seems to have gone out of his way to sabotage the career of this younger artist. There is a group of thirteen portraits in the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, among them the portrait of Daniel Jousse \(1704-1781\), a famous legal expert who published about twenty volumes on criminal law. ## Related artworks - [A Girl with a Kitten]() - [Abrahann Van Robais]() - [Laurent Cars, engraver]() - [Madame de Sorquainville]() - [Madmoiselle Huquier]() - [Monsieur Tassin de La Renardière]() - [Portrait of a Boy with a Book]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of Charles le Normant du Coudray]() - [Portrait of Gabriel Huquier \(detail\)]() - [Portrait of Gabriel Huquier]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()