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Tierce, Jean-Baptiste
(b Rouen, 9 April 1737; d Tuscany, ?1794). French painter and draughtsman. A pupil in Rouen of Jean-Baptiste Descamps, he then studied in Paris under Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre. Although he painted religious works for churches in Rouen in 1772 and 1780, Tierce is known principally for his landscape paintings and drawings, executed in the south of France and Italy. The real and imaginary are fused in his landscapes, which are characterized by beautiful foliage and harmonious skies. In 1772, when he was living in Aix-en-Provence, Tierce was approved (agréé) by the Académie de Marseille; he went to Florence the following year and then to Naples, where he taught Raphael Morghen drawing. Tierce’s Fishing by Torchlight (1776; Carcassonne, Mus. B.-A.) and five drawings (untraced) that eventually appeared as engravings in the first two volumes of the Abbé de Saint-Non’s Voyage pittoresque de Naples et de Sicile (1781–6) date from this period. Tierce accompanied the Marquis de Sade on part of his trip to Italy in 1775; he drew landscapes preserved by Comte Xavier de Sade. In 1777 Tierce’s election to the Accademia degli Arcadi marked the beginning of his career in Rome. He remained in Rome until 1789, apart from two brief visits to France (in 1779–80 and 1786). A protégé of the Cardinal de Bernis, who owned Tierce’s Tempest and a View of Paestum (Toulouse, Mus. Augustins), he also undertook work for Giovanni Battista Piranesi and painted a View of Vesuvius (untraced) for the Comte d’Orsay, which was exhibited in Paris in 1779 at the Salon de la Correspondance.
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