Jean-Bernard Duvivier (

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, 1762 – Paris, 1837) was a painter and drawer of portraits and historical and religious subjects, a book illustrator and a professor at the Normal School in Paris. After having been instructed by

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and Paul de Cock and Suvée, he studied in Italy for six years. His style is characterised by balanced composition, lifelike drawing and bright colours. Brooklyn Museum - Portrait of Madame Tallien - Jean-Bernard Duvivier

Brooklyn Museum - Portrait of Madame Tallien - Jean-Bernard Duvivier

Paintings

* ''Horatius kills his Sister Camilla'', 1785, Le Mans, Musée de Tessé * ''Cleopatra Captured by Roman Soldiers after the Death of Mark Antony'', 1789, Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester * ''Portrait of the Family Villers'', 1790, Bruges, Groeningemuseum * ''Portrait of a Noble Woman'', 1806, Brooklyn Museum * ''Scene of Deluge'', Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie

Drawings

* ''The Funeral of Hector'', 1793, Brussels, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium * ''Portrait of François

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'', 1798, location unknown * ''Troyan Soldier'', 1800-1801, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Notes

References

* Donald. A. Rosenthal, ''A Cleopatra by Bernard Duvivier'', in: Porticus. The Journal of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester 8 (1985), p. 13-25. * Dominique Marechal, ''J. Bernard Duvivier (1762–1837), un peintre dessinateur néo-classique brugeois à Paris'', in: Jaarboek 1995-1997. Stad Brugge. Stedelijke Musea, Bruges, 1997, p. 216-237 and 337-47. *''Le romantisme en Belgique'', exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 2005, cat. 24. *''Bruges Paris Rome. Joseph Benoît Suvée et le néoclassicisme'', exhibition catalogue, Bruges, 2007. * Dominique Marechal, ''Jean-Bernard Duvivier, bibliophile''. Concerning Karel van Hulthem, the adventures of Robinson Crusoe and the death of Marat, in: Hommage Robert Hozee. Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent 1982-2012, Ghent, 2014, p. 215-216, and 240; ill. p. 98 * https://londonartweek.co.uk/artworks/head-of-a-bearded-man/?cookie-state-change=1666101777747 Attribution: * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duvivier, Jean Bernard 1762 births 1837 deaths Painters from Bruges 18th-century Flemish painters 19th-century Flemish painters 19th-century French painters