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Auction: 06/16/2016
Lot: 38
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Jean-Jacques De Boissieu AUCTION RECORDS
1736 Lyon, France - 1810 Lyon, France. Known for: Landscape, figure and genre painting.
‘M. de Boissieux, de Lyon, excellent dessinateur, également célèbre par ses ouvrages et par ses vertus’, wrote the Comte de Forbin several years after the death of Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, one of... Read full biography
‘M. de Boissieux, de Lyon, excellent dessinateur, également célèbre par ses ouvrages et par ses vertus’, wrote the Comte de Forbin several years after the death of Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, one of the most gifted draughtsmen working in the French provinces in the latter half of the 18th century.... Read full biography
‘M. de Boissieux, de Lyon, excellent dessinateur, également célèbre par ses ouvrages et par ses vertus’, wrote the Comte de Forbin several years after the death of Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, one of the most gifted draughtsmen working in the French provinces in the latter half of the 18th century. Apart from a few years of study at the Ecole Gratuite de Dessin in his native Lyon, de Boissieu seems to have been largely self-taught. Apart from a few years in Paris and Italy, he worked almost... Read full biography
‘M. de Boissieux, de Lyon, excellent dessinateur, également célèbre par ses ouvrages et par ses vertus’, wrote the Comte de Forbin several years after the death of Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, one of the most gifted draughtsmen working in the French provinces in the latter half of the 18th century. Apart from a few years of study at the Ecole Gratuite de Dessin in his native Lyon, de Boissieu seems to have been largely self-taught. Apart from a few years in Paris and Italy, he worked almost exclusively in Lyon. After studying with the painter Jean-Charles Frontier, Boissieu embarked upon the life of the amateur, travelling throughout the countryside around Lyon and the Rhône valley, making landscape and genre studies. As the artist noted, in... Read full biography
‘M. de Boissieux, de Lyon, excellent dessinateur, également célèbre par ses ouvrages et par ses vertus’, wrote the Comte de Forbin several years after the death of Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, one of the most gifted draughtsmen working in the French provinces in the latter half of the 18th century. Apart from a few years of study at the Ecole Gratuite de Dessin in his native Lyon, de Boissieu seems to have been largely self-taught. Apart from a few years in Paris and Italy, he worked almost exclusively in Lyon. After studying with the painter Jean-Charles Frontier, Boissieu embarked upon the life of the amateur, travelling throughout the countryside around Lyon and the Rhône valley, making landscape and genre studies. As the artist noted, in a letter to his friend Johann Georg Wille in 1761, 'I have always made drawings directly from nature, and for me there is no mor... Read full biography
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