Tierce (Jean-Baptiste).- Eight pastoral copper engravings.

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Eight pastoral copper engravings, by Jean-Baptiste Tierce, each engraved at the foot of the plate with the artist's signature. Oblong 8vo, 16 X 20cm, 8 leaves, printed on the rectos only, n.p., n.d.

Sewn into Italian (?)  contemporary decorative wrappers, slightly chipped at the spine. A very good copy.

Tierce (1735-1794) entered the Rouen School of Fine Arts, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Descamps. A gifted pupil, Tierce was sent to perfect his skills in Paris with Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre. He was accredited to the Academy of Painting and Sculpture and, although he also painted religious works for Rouen churches in 1772 and 1780, his landscape paintings and his drawings executed in the south of France and Italy acquired him a reputation as a landscape artist. Approved by the Academy of Marseille in 1772, while living in Aix-en-Provence, the following year he went to Florence and then to Naples, where he taught drawing to Morghen. From that period dates his Torchlight Fishing (Musée des beaux-arts de Carcassonne, 1776) and five drawings appearing as engravings in the first two volumes of the Picturesque Voyage of Naples and Sicily by the abbot of Saint-Non (Paris, Lafosse , 1781-1786). Tierce also accompanied, in 1775, the Marquis de Sade during part of his trip to Italy, illustrating his Voyage d'Italie, or, Critical, historical and philosophical dissertations on the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples, Lorette and the roads adjacent to these four cities. His election in 1777 to the Academy of Arcadia in Rome marked the beginning of his Roman career where he remained until 1789, except for two brief visits to France in 1779-1780 and 1786. Protected by Cardinal Bernis, who had a Tempest and Ruins of Paestum (Musée des Augustins de Toulouse) of him, Tierce also worked for Piranesi and painted for the Count of Orsay a View of Vesuvius, which was exhibited at the Salon de la Correspondance in 1779. In Florence, he married the daughter of the Grand Duke's first doctor and made this city, where he ended his days, his adoptive country. Many of the works of this painter, characterized by beautiful foliage and a harmonious sky, remained in Italy.

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