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Samuel Bernard (artist)

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Portrait of Samuel-Jacques Bernard

Samuel Bernard, also known as Jacques-Samuel Bernard[1] was a French miniature painter and engraver.

Life

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Born to a Protestant family in Paris in 1615,[2] he was the son of Noel Bernard, a painter. He was a pupil of both Simon Vouet and of Louis du Guernier, and began his artistic career painting frescos. Bernard moved on to painting miniatures before finally devoting himself entirely to engraving.[3] Some still lifes, painted in the early 1660s, are also known.[2]

He joined the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture on its foundation in 1648 and became a professor there in 1655. He was expelled on religious grounds in 1681, but restored to his post following his recantation of Protestantism four years later.[2]

He died in Paris in 1687.[3] The financier Samuel Bernard was his son.[2]

Works

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He engraved plates, both in line and in mezzotint. They include:[3]

Line engravings

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  • Charles Louis, Duke of Bavaria; after van Dyck.
  • Louis du Guernier, miniature painter.
  • Philip, Count of Bethune.
  • Anne Tristan de la Beaume de Luze, Archbishop of Paris; after De Troy.
  • The Apparition of St. Peter and St. Paul to Attila; after Raphael. His best work.
  • The Young Astyanax discovered by Ulysses in the Tomb of Hector; after Bourdon.
  • The Crucifixion; after Ph. de Champagne.
  • The Virgin Mary, with the dead Christ; after the same.
  • The Ascension; after the same.
  • An allegorical subject of Concord.
  • The Flight into Egypt; after Guido.

Mezzotints

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  • The Portrait of Louis XIV; oval.
  • Sebastian, le Prestre de Vauban; after F. de Troy.
  • The Nativity; after Rembrandt.
  • A Herdsman driving Cattle.
  • An Ox Market; after B. Castiglione.
  • The Kepose; called La Zingara; after Correggio.

References

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  1. ^ "Bernard, Samuel". Union List of Artist' Names. J Paul Getty Foundation. The ULAN database gives "Samuel Bernard as the preferred version.
  2. ^ a b c d Rosenberg, Pierre (1982). France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-century French Paintings in American Collections. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 222–3. ISBN 9780870992957.
  3. ^ a b c Bryan 1886

Attribution:

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Bernard, Samuel". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.