Pierre Lacour

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French painter and printmaker

A.K.A.

Pierre Lacour Père Pierre Lacour I Pierre Count Pierre Delacour Pierre I Lacour

Places

France

was

Painter

Work field

Arts

Gender

Male

Birth

15 April 1745 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Bordeaux

Death

28 January 1814 People who died on this day

Place of death

Bordeaux

Age

68 years

Family

Children:

Pierre Lacour

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Biography

Pierre Lacour (15 April 1745 - 28 January 1814) was a French painter. He was born and died in Bordeaux
Lacour took second prize of the Prix de Rome in 1769 (the winner was Joseph Barthélémy Le Bouteux). He founded in 1801 the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux where he was the first curator. He was responsible in 1802 for the restoration of Palais Rohan, Strasbourg. The painters Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret and Jean Alaux were his students. Lacour is buried in the cemetery of the Chartreuse.

Works

Achilles Deposits Hector's Corpse at the Feet of Patroclus (1769), École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
St. Roch displayed in 1776
Arrivée du comtte d'Estaing à Brest (Arrival of Comté d'Estaing in Brest), displayed at the Salon in 1782
Reunited Portrait of Judges and Consuls of Bordeaux in 1786 (Portraits réunis des juges et consuls de la Bourse de Bordeaux), displayed in 1787
Ambassador Sully in London (Ambassade de Sully à Londres), displayed in 1787
Étienne de Baecque
Portrait of Mme. Pierre Guibert
Works in the Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux:
- L’Artiste peignant un portrait de famille
- Vue d'une partie du port et des quais de Bordeaux : dit Les Chartrons et Bacalan (View of the Some Ports and Quays in Bordeaux: Les Chartrans and Bacalan)
- Portrait de Pierre Lacour fils (Portrait of Pierre Lacour, Junior) (1778-1859)
- Cléopâtre se désolant dans le tombeau de Marc-Antoine (1781)
Château de Versailles and Trianon: René-Augustin de Maupeou (1714-1792), chancellor of France