A Mother feeding her child

Details

Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre (French 1739-after 1788)
A Mother feeding her child
signed 'B.N.de la Pierre. 1782' (upper left)
oil on canvas
25½ x 21 1/8 in. (64.7 x 53.6 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Delapierre moved from France to Moscow in 1767 and established himself the following year in St Petersburg, where by 1770 he had become a member of the Académie Impériale des Beaux-Arts. He was appointed official Court Painter where his commissions included the portraits of Tsar Paul I and Tsarina Catherine II.

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