Circle of JEAN-BAPTISTE-MARIE PIERRE (1713-1789)

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Circle of JEAN-BAPTISTE-MARIE PIERRE (1713-1789)

A reclining Academy Study, reading, a Skull and Scrolls nearby

oil on canvas, unframed
39 3/8 x 54¼in. (101 x 137.7cm.)
Provenance
with André Lemaire, Paris.

Lot Essay

For a similar treatment of the male nude, see Pierre's Nu masculin assis en Prométhée of 1747, now in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe (see C. Bailey, in the catalogue of the exhibtion, Les amours des dieux, Paris, 1991, p. 397, fig. 4).

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