Jean-Baptiste le Prince
French (1734 - 1781)
Jean-Baptiste le Prince was a French printmaking artist.
From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an etching work attributed to Jean-Baptiste le Prince (1734-1781) was C$56 - paid for "The Fishing Nets" at Saskatchewan NAC in Regina on Sun, Sep 22, 2024.
ArtValue.ca has one auction art sale record for their etching results, with prices in the range of C$50 to C$100.
ArtValue.ca has one auction art sale record for their etching results, with prices in the range of C$50 to C$100.
Notable Art Works
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince was born in 1734 in Metz, France. He began his study in Metz but as a teenage moved to Paris and became a leading student of Francois Boucher. In 1758 he started a five-year commissoin at the Imperial Palace, St. Petersburg, creating artworks for Catherine the Great. He retuned to Paris in 1763, and became a full member of the Academy of Painters and Sculptors in 1765. He is credited with being the first artist to use the aquatint technique for etched or engraved plate, and may have in fact invented the aquatint technique. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince die in Saint-Denis-du-Port, France, in 1781.