![Jean-Baptiste Le Prince - The Necromancer [c.1775] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_ulyLRH21g89g3eOfdu35RC5FWUtCzjMFkL-F28VkokSMw4LxXifjvRn8QJBuqbdXRH5QjrZZPaLb_Qj9p2ZrQdkFuHWRcfXjuPhObF5hlGiJ2GfygvtQ_udLpNCh9ZcFo=s0-d)
Three versions of this subject are known, including one in the Hermitage, St Petersburg. It is not known which of the three was the one exhibited at the Salon of 1775. Evidently a popular composition, it was also engraved in 1785. Le Prince was born in Metz, and became a pupil of Boucher in Paris; about 1758 he travelled via Holland to Russia, returning to Paris in 1763. In 1765 he became a member of the Academy. He painted some landscapes but was chiefly known for his genre scenes, often of Russian subject-matter.
[Oil on canvas, 76.8 x 63.5 cm]
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