Jean-Baptiste Marie PIERRE (Paris 1714 - 1789) Ganymède and the eagle

Jean-Baptiste Marie PIERRE (Paris 1714 - 1789)
Ganymède and the eagle
Oil on canvas
63 x 80 cm
Expert : Cabinet Turquin
Our painting can be compared to the one exhibited by Pierre at the 1743 Salon (no. 95), lost but known from Jean-Martin Preissler's engraving - in the same sense - (Nicolas Lesur and Olivier Aaron, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714-1789), Premier peintre du roi, Paris, 2009, no. P. 45, p. 228). We note as a variant the absence on our canvas of the sandal and the laces on the young man's leg.
Restorations and accidents.