July 16, 2020
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PAGE SPONSOR		 Jean - Baptiste Marie Pierre (Paris, 6 March 1714 - Paris, 15 May 1789) was a French painter, drawer and administrator.

He was a student of Charles - Joseph Natoire at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and painted a self portrait in 1732. From 1770 to 1789 he was Premier peintre du Roi.

Jean - Baptiste Marie Pierre's students included Étienne - Louis Boullée, Louis - Jacques Durameau, Nicolas - René Jollain, Friedrich Reclam, Étienne de Lavallée Poussin, Jean - Jacques - François Le Barbier, Antoine Vestier, Jean - Baptiste Tierce, and Hughes Taraval.

     

Noël Hallé (2 September 1711, Paris – 5 June 1781, Paris) was a French painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was born into a family of artists, the son of Claude - Guy Hallé.

Hallé took the Prix de Rome in 1736. Among his works are Ancient Rome - related The Death of Seneca, Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi and The Justice of Trajan.