Jacques de Lajoue
Jacques de Lajoue, a French architectural painter, was born in 1687 in Paris. He became a member of the Academy in 1721, and is noticed for a 'Perspective' which he executed in 1732 at the Library of St. Geneviève. He also designed the title-page to the works of Wouwerman. Etchings have been made after him by Cochin, Tardieu, and others. He died in Paris in 1761.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "De la Joue, Jacques". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
Further reading
- Primary study
- Roland Michel, Marianne (1984). Lajoüe et l'art rocaille (biography and catalogue raisonné) (in French). Paris: Arthena. ISBN 2-903239-03-7. OCLC 319216701.
- Reference books
- Bénézit, Emmanuel (2006) [first published in French in 1911–1923]. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 8. Paris: Gründ. pp. 322–323. ISBN 2-7000-3078-8 – via the Internet Archive.
- Roland Michel, Marianne (1996). "Lajoüe, Jacques de". In Turner, Jane (ed.). The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 18. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. pp. 653–655. ISBN 1-884446-00-0. LCCN 96013628. OCLC 1033666240 – via the Internet Archive.
- Roman d’Amat, Ariane (1997). "Lajoue (Jacques de)". In Prevost, Michel; Roman d’Amat, Jean-Charles; Tribout de Morembert, Henri; and Lobies, Jean-Pierre (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie française (in French). Vol. 19. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. col. 376–377. ISBN 2-7063-0201-1. OCLC 465694202.
- Vollmer, Hans, ed. (1928). "Lajoue, Jacques de, II". Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler (in German). Vol. 22. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. p. 232. OCLC 165485974.
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