Jacques-Louis Bance
Jacques-Louis or J. -L. Bance (17 April 1761 - 26 March 1847) was a French print dealer, publisher, engraver and artist. He was also known as Bance the Elder to distinguish him from his brother Charles, also an engraver and print dealer.
Jacques-Louis Bance
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- Full name
- Louis Jacques Bence.
- Born
- 1761. · Claville.
- Died
- 1847. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- editor, printseller, printmaker, draftsperson, publisher and art dealer.
- Fields
- publishing, print production, periodical and graphics.
- Languages
- French.
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The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is publishing, print production and periodical. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Jacques-Louis Bance is recorded in the collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Born in Claville to a farmer, he was orphaned aged nine and apprenticed to a master saddler in Évreux. He left to work in Normandy as a companion saddler before setting up a business in Paris in 1787 as a master saddler. He first produced an engraving in 1789 and particularly focussed on historic scenes. He became a publisher and print dealer. To export prints he invented a system allowing him to transport them under glass - his method remains secret. He specialised in publishing books of figures and architectural periodicals such as Etudes relatives a l'art des constructions (Relative Studies on the Art of Construction; 1823-1828). From 1831 to 1846 he traded with his son Balthazar Bance (1804-1862) as "Bance aîné et successeur" (Bance the Elder and [his] successor). He became the brother-in-law of Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage in February 1792 then the father-in-law of the print dealer Jean-Baptiste Caillard (1776-1833). He died in Paris in 1847 (having stopped work as an engraver only the year before) and his son inherited his business. His body rests in the 18th division of the cimetière du Père-Lachaise under a small monument (belonging to the family of Hervé Bernard, great-grandfather of admiral Henri Rieunier), with the inscription "Bienfaiteur de Claville" ("Benefactor of Claville").
Work
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He mainly produced drawings and engravings in burin and etching on symbolic patriotic themes.
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Claville.
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- 1.data.bnf.fr. Jacques-Louis Bance.
- 2.BNE. Fiche de Jacques-Louis Bance.
- 3.BnF. Jacques-Louis Bance.
- 4.Registre journalier d'inhumation, 29 mars 1847, n°89147, page 18
- 5.Fiche de Le Mont Cœlio, l'une des collines de Rome : On distingue le Colisée, St Grégoire, la Curia hostilia et l'ancienne futura. Gallica.
- 6.Fiche de Le Mont Esquilinien, l'une des Collines de Rome : On distingue les Restes des Thermes de Tite Ste Marie Majeure et d'une Arcade du Colisée. Gallica.
- 7.Fiche de Le Mont Esquilin l'une des Collines de Rome : Cette vue est prise du second ordre du Colisée. On distingue la Tour de Néron, les derrières du Quirinal et les fabriques de St Pierre in Vincoli. Gallica.
- 8.Fiche de Le Mont Janicule, l'une des collines de Rome : Cette vue est prise du prieuré. On distingue la Ripa Grande, la Navigation du Tibre. Au fond le Vatican et la Villa Pamphili. Gallica.
- 9.Fiche de Le Mont Palatin l'une des Colines de Rome : On y distingue les Ruines des Césars et le couvent de Ste Bonaventure. Gallica.
- 10.Fiche de Suite du Mont Palatin : On distingue l'Arc de Constantin et le Colisée. BnF.
- 11.Fiche de Le Mont Capitolin, l'une des Collines de Rome : Cette vue est prise des Ruines du Palais des César aujourd'hui jardins Farnèse, on distingue les Antiquités du Forum Romanum. Gallica.
- 12.Fiche de Vue Intérieure de la Grande Salle du Divan dans le Chateau du Caire : Vulgairement dite Salle Joseph. BnF.
- 13.Fiche de Le Mont Aventin une des collines de Rome : Cette vue est prise du Couvent des P.P. de St Bonaventure situé sur le Mont Palatin. On distingue les ruines du Palais des Césars, et dans le fond les marais pontins. BnF.
- 14.Fiche de Le Mont Quirinal l'une des Collines de Rome : On distingue dans le fond le Palais du Pape et la Villa Colonna. BnF.
- 15.Fiche de Le Mont Viminal, l'une des Collines de Rome : On découvre dans le fond les derrières du Campo Vaccino et les Ruines du Temple de la Paix. BnF.
- 16.Fiche de Vue du Temple d'Esculape et du Lac de la Villa Borghese à Rome. BnF.
- 17.Fiche de Prise de la Bastille par les bourgeois et les braves Gardes françaises de la bonne ville de Paris, le 14 juillet 1789 : dédiée à la nation. ( exemplaire). Gallica.
- 18.Fiche de Prise de la Bastille par les bourgeois et les braves Gardes françaises de la bonne ville de Paris, le 14 juillet 1789 : dédiée à la nation. ( exemplaire). Gallica.
- 19.Fiche de La Regeneration de la nation française en 1789 : dédiée et présentée à l'Assemblée nationale le 13 juillet 1790 comme pouvant être le modèle d'un monument puplic [sic]. Gallica.
- 20.Fiche de Oreille de Denys le Tyran de Syracuse. Gallica.
- 21.Fiche de Vue d'une partie des ruines du Temple de Junon Lacinia à Agrigente. Gallica.
- 22.Fiche de M. le m.quis de La Fayette : maréchal des camps, général de la milice parisienne. BnF.
- 23.Fiche de Volontaires de la Garde nationale française, [.] : vivre libre ou mourir. BnF.
- 24.Liste d'estampes éditées par Jacques-Louis Bance. data.bnf.fr.
- 25.Acte constitutionnel de 1798. Gallica.
- 26.Fiche de l'estampe de la Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789. Gallica.
- 27.Fiche de La Brêche de Roland (Hautes Pyrénées). Rosalis.
- 28.Fiche de Vallée d'Ossau - Pyrénées. Rosalis.
- 29.Le 31 may 1793. Gallica.
- 30.Explication : Ce Gouvernement est représenté sous la figure d'un Diable écorché tout vif. Gallica.
- 31.Image de La Nuit du 9 au 10 thermidor An II. photo.rmn.fr.
- 32.Fiche de La Nuit du 9 au 10 thermidor An II. BnF.
- 33.Fiche de Plan de la Bataille de Jena, Gagnée par la Grande Armée Française commandée par l'Empereur Napoléon sur l'Armée Prusienne commandée par le Roi en personne. 20. 000 Pieds. Gallica.
- 34.Musée de la Révolution française
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
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