Artist
Jean-Bernard Duvivier
French, 1762–1837
Jean-Bernard Duvivier was a French Neoclassicism painter. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Groeningemuseum, most of them oil paintings. Jean-Bernard Duvivier was born in Bruges.
Overview
Jean-Bernard Duvivier (Bruges, 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 Hubert 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.
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 Maine de Biran, 1798, location unknown Troyan Soldier, 1800-1801, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Works by Jean-Bernard Duvivier
Collections represented
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