Monday, October 18, 2021

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger (Rococo Ornament)

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Architectural Capriccio with Pavilion on a Canal
ca. 1736-37
oil on canvas
Musée Lambinet, Versailles

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Allegory of Optics
before 1761
oil on canvas
private collection

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger (scenery) and Abraham Ignace Bolkman (figures)
Fête Champêtre
ca. 1730-40
oil on canvas
private collection

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Allegory of Winter
ca. 1730-50
drawing, with watercolor
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Allegory of Winter
before 1761
oil on canvas
(overdoor)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Design for Folding Screen
before 1761
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger (architecture) and François Le Moyne (figures)
Design for Fireworks Display for the Convalescence of Louis XV
1726
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Design for Cascading Fountain
before 1761
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Design for Wall Decoration with Rococo Architecture
ca. 1740-60
drawing
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Design for an Escutcheon in the form of a Boat
1734
drawing
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Design for Corner of Decorative Panel
ca. 1730
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Design for Stage Set
before 1761
drawing, with watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Design for Stage Set
before 1761
drawing, with watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Design for Rotunda of a Palace
before 1761
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacques de Lajoue the Younger
Throne Hall of Lucifer
before 1761
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

"Jacques de Lajoue – a French architectural painter, was born in 1687.  He became a member of the Academy in 1721 [the year of Watteau's death], and is noticed for a 'Perspective' which he executed in 1732 at the Library of St. Geneviève.  He also designed the title-page to the works of Wouwerman.  Etchings have been made after him by Cochin, Tardieu, and others.  He died in Paris in 1761."

– Michael Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (London: George Bell and Sons, 1886)