Jacques de Lajoue, a French architectural painter, was born in 1687 in Paris. He became a member of the Academy in 1721, and is noticed for a 'Perspective' which he executed in 1732 at the Library of St. Geneviève. He also designed the title-page to the works of Wouwerman. Etchings have been made after him by Cochin, Tardieu, and others. He died in Paris in 1761.

Design for an Ornamental Decoration (1740–60), pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on paper by Jacques de Lajoüe (Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum)

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "De la Joue, Jacques". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

Further reading

Primary study

• Roland Michel, Marianne (1984). Lajoüe et l'art rocaille (biography and catalogue raisonné) (in French). Paris: Arthena. ISBN 2-903239-03-7. OCLC 319216701.

Reference books

• Bénézit, Emmanuel (2006) [first published in French in 1911–1923]. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 8. Paris: Gründ. pp. 322–323. ISBN 2-7000-3078-8 – via the Internet Archive.
• Roland Michel, Marianne (1996). "Lajoüe, Jacques de". In Turner, Jane (ed.). The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 18. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. pp. 653–655. ISBN 1-884446-00-0. LCCN 96013628. OCLC 1033666240 – via the Internet Archive.
• Roman d’Amat, Ariane (1997). "Lajoue (Jacques de)". In Prevost, Michel; Roman d’Amat, Jean-Charles; Tribout de Morembert, Henri; and Lobies, Jean-Pierre (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie française (in French). Vol. 19. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. col. 376–377. ISBN 2-7063-0201-1. OCLC 465694202.
• Vollmer, Hans, ed. (1928). "Lajoue, Jacques de, II". Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler (in German). Vol. 22. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. p. 232. OCLC 165485974.