Jean-Louis Burtin, sculptor from Nancy, created an important collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures and printes by Lorrain artists. This group was kept by Jean-Louis Burtin's descent until now. It represents only a part of his collection which counted over 300 paintings, drawings and sculptures, and hundreds of prints and an important library. Lots 155 and 157 were however never part of the Burtin collection as they were purchased by his son-in-law.
Exposé à :
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum/Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum/Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Louis XIII - Louis XVI: French Drawings from a Private Collection, 1980, pp. 138-139, no. 49 (as 'La Belle Finnoise');
Tampa Museum, Louis XIII - Louis XVI: French Drawings from a Private Collection, 1982
Leprince trained in the studio of François Boucher and this combined with his own abundant artistic talent, lead him into a successful artistic career in Paris. However, in 1758, probably due to his own unhappy marriage, Leprince fled to Russia, remaining there until 1764. In addition to a number of court and society commissions, he made a large number of costume and landscape studies in the Russian hinterland, which were to form the basis of his highly fashionable output on his return to France.
