Pierre Peyron (1744-1814)

Aliases: Jean François Pierre Peyron; Jean-François Pierre Peyron; Pierre (1744) Peyron

Professions: Historical-scenes painter; Etcher

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  PIERRE PEYRON (AIX-EN-PROVENCE 1744-1814)

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  Pierre Peyron (1744-1814)

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  Attribué à Jean-François-Pierre Peyron (1744-1814)

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Pierre Peyron Biography

(b Aix-en-Provence, 15 Dec 1744; d Paris, 20 Jan 1814). French painter and draughtsman. He was the son of a provincial administrator and at the wish of his family studied law until the death of his father in 1765, when as a protégé of Michel-François Dandré-Bardon he enrolled in the Ecole de Dessin at Aix-en-Provence. In 1767 he moved to Paris as a pupil of Louis Lagrenée and also enrolled in the school of the Académie Royale de Peinture. In 1773 he won the Prix de Rome in competition with Jacques-Louis David. Peyron’s version of the prize subject, the Death of Seneca (untraced), is known through an engraving by the artist. In 1774, working to designs by Charles-Louis Clérisseau, he decorated the salon of the Hôtel Grimod de la Reynière, Paris, with the first examples of Neo-classical grotesque decoration in 18th-century France.

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