Jacques de Lajoue, a French architectural painter, was born in 1687 in Paris. He became a member of the Academy in 1721, 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.

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Design for an Ornamental Decoration (1740–60), pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on paper by Jacques de Lajoüe (Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum)

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  •   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "De la Joue, Jacques". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

Further reading

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Primary study
  • Roland Michel, Marianne (1984). Lajoüe et l'art rocaille (biography and catalogue raisonné) (in French). Paris: Arthena. ISBN 2-903239-03-7. OCLC 319216701.
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