Pierre Joseph Lafontaine

Pierre Joseph Lafontaine (18 July 1758 – 12 January 1835) was a Belgian painter, art historian and art dealer. He was most senior of the experts to the royal museums.

Life Born in Courtrai, he initially trained in that city's academy, where he studied under Jean Douelle (1755-1793), before joining the Académie Royale de Peinture in Paris. For example, he found Rembrandt's The Woman Taken in Adultery in Belgium.

He did paint some architectural works, notably church and palace interiors with figures added by Demarne, Swebach and Taunay, and was heavily influenced by the work of the Neefs and Stenwijck families, gaining the nickname Lafontaine Peterneefs. the Herzogliches Museum in Gotha, Courtrai, Lille, the Musée Carnavalet, the Louvre, at the Musee des Arts Décoratifs. He died in Paris in 1835.