Pierre Etienne LESUEUR
(Active between 1791 and 1810)
Oil on panel
27 x 38,5 cm (42 x 53 cm with the frame)
Signed and dated lower right "E. LESUEUR / 1790
Very beautiful carved and gilded wooden frame from the beginning of the XIXth century
Active in Paris, Pierre Etienne Lesueur is presented as a painter of landscapes, student of Jean Pillement. He exhibited at the Salon des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1791 and 1810. Our painting is dated 1790. In 1791, he exhibited at the Salon several small landscapes with figures as well as a "Landscape at the Toni waterfall", a "View of the temples of Pestum" and a "Moonlight reflected in a lake with bacchants in fury with a torch in hand".
In 1791, he sold his collection of paintings in Paris and announced the desire to travel to indulge in the joys of landscape painting. Poussin, the great masters and Claude Gelée show his influences from the French and Italian masters, which can be seen in his landscapes.
Pierre Etienne Lesueur has often been confused with a painter during the Revolution whose revolutionary gouaches can still be found today in our school textbooks. It is probably in fact Jean-Baptiste Lesueur, a painter who held municipal functions during the Revolution, and whom the Almanach of the Year XII describes as "a painter of historical genre figures and scenery", a painter of images of artisanal workmanship.
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| Style | Directoire style (Landscape Paintings of Directoire style Style) |
| Period | 18th century (Landscape Paintings 18th century) |
| Country of origin | France |
| Artist | Pierre Etienne LESUEUR |
| Width (cm) | 38,5 cm (53 cm avec le cadre) |
| Height (cm) | 27 cm (42 cm avec le cadre) |
| Materials | Oil on panel |
| Shipping Time | Ready to ship in 4-7 Business Days |
| Location | 75009, Paris, France |
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