Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne

Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne
Born 8 December 1688[1]
Lyon, France[1]
Died 16 June 1771 (aged 82)[1]
Paris, France[1]
Nationality French
Occupation Art critic
Religion Christian
Denomination 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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "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.