Bernard Picart
Bernard Picart (also Pikahr ) (born June 11, 1673 in Paris , † May 8, 1733 in Amsterdam ) was a French engraver and book illustrator .
Life
Bernard Picart was first a student of his father Étienne Picart (1632–1721), Benoît Audran d. Ä. and from 1689 by Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714). He studied drawing at the Académie Royale . His first signed engraving was the Hermaphrodite after Poussin in 1693 .
In 1696 he went to the Academy in Antwerp and in 1698 to Amsterdam, where he worked as a book illustrator. At the end of the year he returned to France. In 1702 he married in Paris, where he mainly worked as an engraver. After the death of his wife in late 1708, he traveled via Sweden to The Hague in 1710 and settled in Amsterdam the following year. His father followed him here.
His most distinguished works include the portrait of his father, Prince Eugene, the child murder and the engravings for the Traité des cérémonies religieuses de toutes les nations . His engravings of the gems in the collection of Baron von Stosch are also known , which, unlike other works of the time, were very true to the original.
His student was Jacob van der Schley (1715–1779) from Amsterdam.
Works (selection)
- Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses des peuples idolatres. Representées par des Figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picard. Avec une Explication Historique, & quelques Dissertations curieuses , Volume 1, first part: Qui contient les Ceremonies Religieuses des Peuples des Indes Occidental , JF Bernard, Amsterdam, 1723
Web links
- Review by Maria Effinger / Cornelia Logemann / Ulrich Pfisterer (eds.): Yih-Fen Hua. Images of gods and idolaters in the early modern period. Europe's view of foreign religions. English. In: sehepunkte 13 (2013), No. 5 from May 15, 2013. Online at www.sehepunkte.de.
- europeana : Portrait of Bernard Picart (1673-1733) , drawn by Matthäus des Angles , engraved by Jakob van der Schley
- Biography of Bernard Picart . Online at www.bernardpicart.net.
- Hunt, Jacob, Mijnhardt: Bernard Picart and the first global vision of religion . English. Online at books.google.de.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermaphrodite 1693. In: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON. Retrieved January 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Lynn Avery Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, WW Mijnhardt (Ed.): Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion . Getty Publications, 2010, ISBN 978-0-89236-968-3 ( Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion, p.118 ).
- ↑ Bernard Picart 1673 Paris - Amsterdam 1733 ( Memento of August 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: galerie-fach.de
- ↑ Picart. In: Herders Conversations-Lexikon from 1854. Retrieved January 19, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Picart, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French engraver and book illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1673 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1733 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |