Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne

Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne
Born (1688-12-08)8 December 1688[1]
Lyon, France[1]
Died 16 June 1771(1771-06-16) (aged 82)[1]
Paris, France[1]
Nationality French
Occupation Art critic
Religion Christian (Jansenism[2])

Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne (born 1688 in Lyon, died 1771 in Paris) was a French art critic of the 18th century.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "BnF catalogue général - Notice d'autorité personne - La Font de Saint-Yenne, Étienne (1688-1771)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Jonker, Marijke (2009). "La Font de Saint-Yenne: Jansenism and the Beginnings of Independent Art Criticism in France". In Adlam, Carol; Simpson, Juliet. Critical Exchange: Art Criticism of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Russia and Western Europe. Peter Lang. pp. 193–205. ISBN 9783039115563.


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