Jean Barbault

French1718–1762

About

Jean Barbault was a French painter, etcher and printmaker, who worked in Rome for most of his life. He is noted for paintings of local people, wearing traditional costumes or Oriental costumes and for his work documenting iconic Roman monuments and antiquities which were published in two volumes.

Notable works

Vues des Plus Beaux Restes des Antiquités Romaines telles qu'elles subsistent encore à Rome et en divers endroits de l'italie dessinés par Monsieur Barbault et gravés par d'habiles maîtres

at Petit Palais

A Roman Cook´s Boy Sharpening a Knife

at Statens Museum for Kunst

Greek Sultana

at Louvre Museum

Roman Ruins

at National Gallery of Ireland

Neapolitan Herder and a Cow leaving a Cave

at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

Works in the collection

5 works