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Pierre Allais (c. 1700 – January 14, 1781) was a French painter and pastel artist.
Career
[edit]Allais was born in Paris. He was admitted to the Academy of Saint-Luc in 1745; he also probably worked there as an assistant professor. The influence of Jean-Marc Nattier can be observed in his works.[1]
He won the first prize for painting at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1726.[1]
He died in Paris in 1781;[2] on March 25, 1782, his widow, Marie-Françoise Ansiaume, was buried in the Saint-Sulpice cemetery.[3]
Allais's works in public collections include:
- Portrait de femme, oil on canvas, Paris, Petit Palais[4]
- Portrait of a Young officer, pastel, 1756, Detroit Institute of Arts
Gallery
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Portrait de Madame Geoffrin, 1747
Portrait of a nobleman, 1753
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References
[edit]- 1 2 Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, Londres, Unicorn press, 2006 ISBN 0-906290-86-4, p. 33.
- ↑ "Inventaire après décès de Pierre Allais peintre maître de l'Académie de Saint-Luc rue de l' Echaudé". francearchives.fr. Retrieved 2023-11-28..
- ↑ Henri Herluison, Actes d'état-civil d'artistes français, peintres, graveurs, architectes etc. extraits des registres de l'Hôtel-de-Ville de Paris détruits dans l'incendie du 24 mai 1871, Orléans, 1873, p. 3 Lire en ligne.
- ↑ "Portrait de femme". parismuseescollections.paris.fr.
External links
[edit]- "Pierre Allais". www.artnet.fr. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
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