French Rococo Era Painter, ca.1715-1783 French pastellist, painter and engraver. He was, with his older contemporary Maurice Quentin de La Tour, the most important pastel artist and portrait painter in 18th-century France. Perronneau trained first with the engraver Laurent Cars and then with the successful portrait painter Hubert Drouais. His work as an engraver, which includes prints after Charles-Joseph Natoire, Fran?ois Boucher, Edme Bouchardon and Carle Vanloo (see Vaillat and Ratouis de Limay,), did not continue beyond the 1730s. Nevertheless, his involvement with Cars, much of whose work consisted in the reproduction of portraits by artists such as Hyacinthe Rigaud, left its mark on the composition of his pastels, most of which employ the bust-length format, often within a feigned stone oval typical of 17th- and 18th-century engraved portraits. His early pastel portrait of Mme Desfriches (1744; France, A.M. Ratouis de Limay priv. col.), mother of his friend and patron, the Orl?ans collector Aignan-Thomas Desfriches,   Related Paintings of PERRONNEAU, Jean-Baptiste :. | A Girl with a Kitten | Portrait of Charles le Normant du Coudray af | Portrait of Jacques Cazotte af | A Boy with a Book | Jean-Baptiste Oudry Painter (mk05) |
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Cary, William
1759-C1825
OOST, Jacob van, the Younger
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FLORIGERIO, Sebastiano
Italian painter, Friulian school (b. ca. 1500, Conegliano, d. 1543, Udine).