Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun

The Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun, born in 1748 in Paris, was a French painter, art dealer and author of a number of publications on artistic education and artists, predominantly about the painters of the Écoles du Nord_ (Northern schools). In 1771, le Brun took over his father’s, Pierre Le Brun (c. 1700-1771), art business which focused predominantly on the Northern school. In 1775, he married the painter Marie Louise-Elisabeth Vigée (1755–1842), known for her portraits of nobilities, including a portrait of Marie Antoinette. The Hôtel de Lubert served as his private house and gallery. During the French revolution, le Brun, who was an outspoken royaliste, had to escape to Italy with his young daughter Jeanne-Julie-Louise. Between 1792 and 1796, he published the “Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands”, _a comprehensive survey of 1,350 Flemish, Dutch and German painters known to him at the time, and became involved in the realization of the Muséum National, which would later become the Musée Napoleon. For more information, please see: http://www.essentialvermeer.com/history/le_brun_biography.html. Accessed 4 June 2021. Oliver, Bette W. Jean-Baptiste-Pierre LeBrun: In Pursuit of Art (1748-1813). Hamilton Books 2018.