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Jeaurat, Etienne
(b Paris, 9 Feb 1699; d Versailles, 14 Dec 1789). French painter and draughtsman. He was a favourite pupil of Nicolas Vleughels, who, when appointed director of the Académie Française in Rome in 1724, took Jeaurat with him, though it is hard to discern any Italian influence at all in Jeaurat’s work. Jeaurat was approved (agréé) by the Académie Royale, Paris, in 1731 and was received (reçu) two years later as a history painter with his Pyramis and Thisbe (1733; Roanne, Mus. Déchelelte). Jeaurat rose to the highest posts in the Académie, becoming professor in 1743, rector in 1765 and chancellor in 1781. He exhibited regularly at the Salon between 1737 and 1769, and the Gobelins factory made tapestries after his designs. Unlike his exact contemporary Chardin, Jeaurat had a highly successful official career with his many posts—in 1767, for instance, he was also appointed Garde des Tableaux du Roi at Versailles—and he was always accepted as a history painter, an ambition that constantly eluded Greuze.
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