Pierre Lacour

Self-portrait (1798)
Achilles Deposits Hector's Corpse at the Feet of Patroclus (Prix de Rome)

Pierre Lacour (15 April 1745 - 28 January 1814) was a French painter. He was born and died in Bordeaux

Lacour took second prize in the Prix de Rome of 1769. In 1801, he founded the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, where he was the first curator. The following year, he worked on restoring the Palais Rohan. The painters Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret and Jean Alaux were among his students.

Lacour is buried in the Cimetière de la 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[1]
    • 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)[2]
    • Portrait de Pierre Lacour fils (Portrait of Pierre Lacour, Junior) (1778-1859)[3]
    • Cléopâtre se désolant dans le tombeau de Marc-Antoine (1781)
  • Château de Versailles and Trianon: René-Augustin de Maupeou (1714-1792), chancellor of France[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Oil on panel (in French)
  2. ↑ Oil on panel (in French)
  3. ↑ Oil on panel (in French)
  4. ↑ Oil on panel (in French)

Sources

  • Robert Mesuret, Pierre Lacour, 1745-1814, published by Delmas (Bordeaux) 1937
  • Pierre Lacour, notes and memories of an octogenarian artist, 1778-1798, edition prepared by Philippe Le Leyzour and Dominque Cant, Museum of Fine Arts in Bordeaux and William Blake publishers, Périgueux, Fanlac 1989, ISBN 2-902067-13-5



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