Jacques-Antoine Vallin Lot n° 1132

(Paris, 1760 - 1831) Nymphs with cupids in an Arcadian landscape Signed lower right: Vallin Nymphs with cupids in an Arcadian landscape Oil on panel, cm 26X38/26X37.5 (2) Bibliography: Rome vs Athènes, Grasse, Musée Fragonard (May 25-September 22, 2019), exhibition catalog, no. 14 and 15 Trained in his father's workshop, Jacques-Antoine Vallin enrolled in the Royal Academy at the age of fifteen, studying with history painters Gabriel Doyen , Antoine-François Callet, the Drevet and Antoine Renou. In 1791 the painter first exhibited two canvases, La Tempête and Petit paysage, works that denote the influence of Joseph Vernet (Avignon, 1714 - Paris, 1789) and Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (Carpentras, 1758 - Montmorency, 1846), which foreshadow the works of his early maturity, depicting Arcadian-mythological themed landscapes bathed in golden light, in which the suggestions of David and Prud'hon are felt while maintaining firm ties to the 18th-century rocaille and Italianizing taste.