02 — ARTIST
PERRONNEAU, Jean-Baptiste
b. 1715 Paris · d. 1783 Amsterdam
BIOGRAPHY
French painter and engraver. He worked mainly as a portraitist and mainly in pastel. In this medium he was overshadowed in his lifetime by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, whose style was more vivacious, but posterity has judged the more sober but more penetrating Perronneau to be at least his equal. From about 1755 he led a wandering life, visiting England, the Netherlands several times (he died in Amsterdam), Italy, Poland, and Russia. He was a prolific artist and is represented in many galleries in France and elsewhere.
WORKS IN ARCHIVE
12 OF 15 RECORDS
- A Girl with a Kitten 1745
- Abrahann Van Robais 1769
- Laurent Cars, engraver 1750
- Madame de Sorquainville 1749
- Madmoiselle Huquier 1747
- Monsieur Tassin de La Renardière 1765
- Portrait of Charles le Normant du Coudray 1769
- Portrait of Gabriel Huquier 1747
- Portrait of Gabriel Huquier (detail) 1747
- Portrait of Jacques Cazotte 1764
- Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Oudry 1753
- Portrait of a Boy with a Book 1749
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