Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728-1808)

Appealing Old Masters were on the menu for this sale dedicated to the graphic arts, which also included minor masters of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Although remembered mainly for his chinoiseries, Jean Pillement also left us some fine landscapes halfway between Classicism and Romanticism.

There is more to the 18th-century Lyonnais artist’s painting than meets the eye.

The star of a group of early paintings, Jean-Baptiste Greuze  delivers here a self-portrait free of complacency, but filled with humanity, which touched the art connoisseurs.

It is hard to tell the age of this young girl painted by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, whose face evokes both the child and the adolescent.

This is the modello created by Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631-1681) for the north coving of the Mercury Room ceiling in the Palace of Versailles.

Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855) designed Napoleon’s ceremonial coronation garments and painted the first portrait of the King of Rome. Who else could have been selected to design this table for the imperial family with a porcelain top?

Early painting blossomed, led by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-1699) and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721).

A graceful drawing by Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre—a study for the painting of L'Enlèvement d'Europe (The Rape of Europa)—enchanted bidders.

The Bissonnet family has been maturing meat since the Second Empire and supplying the Presidential Élysée Palace since De Gaulle. They also cultivate a certain art of living, as Jean-Baptiste, head of the Boucheries Nivernaises, can testify.