Étude de vaches
Modern frame.
Drawing made during the journey with the Marquis de Sade in 1776.
Jean-Baptiste Tierce (1737-1794), student at the École des Beaux-arts in Rouen then at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris, quickly distinguished himself as a landscape painter for his views of Southern France and Italy. His paintings are preserved in the Uffizi in Florence and in several French museums. When in December 1775 Sade left Rome for Naples, he was welcomed by the son-in-law of his friend Doctor Mesny, Jean-Baptiste Tierce, who at that time received commissions from Cardinal de Bernis. He found lodging for the Marquis "[
