Jean-baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803) - The Washerwomen

Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right "Lallemand.F."

Jean Baptiste Lallemand, born in Dijon in 1716 and died in Paris in 1803, was a genre, landscape, history, and marine painter, as well as an engraver. In 1739, he decided to go to Paris to learn painting while working as a tailor. In 1774, he received his master's certificate and was admitted "among the masters, gilders, and sculptors" of Dijon, and subsequently, in 1745, among the "masters, painters, and sculptors" of the Academy of Saint Luke in Paris.
He then traveled to Italy, where he drew inspiration from ancient sites and ruins for his paintings. He produced paintings, drawings, engravings, and gouaches. Among his favorite subjects were seascapes, village scenes, rural subjects, and animated landscapes. The painter has a sense of detail and observation, our painting is an example of this, he paints with precision a peaceful scene of washerwomen conversing on the shore of a lake.