Jacques de Lajoue
Jacques de Lajoue, a French architectural painter, was born in 1687. 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.
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- 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). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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- 1687 births
- 1761 deaths
- 18th-century French painters
- French male painters
- French painter, 17th-century birth stubs