Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, 1714-1789 Premier Peintre Du Roi

Trained in Rome by Nicolas Vleughels and Jean-François de Troy, First painter to King Louis XV, First painter to the Duke of Orleans, Director of the royal Academy of paintings and sculpture, chargé du détail des Arts: very few artists of the Ancien Régime knew so much honours during their life as Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre. Very few painters also fell after their death into such a lasting anonymity.

This book by Nicolas Lesur and Olivier Aaron presents a monograph followed by an exhaustive catalogue raisonné of the work of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre.