Jean Bardin
Illustration — Adoration of the Magi, painting from 1781 at the Palace of Fontainebleau Jean Bardin (1732–1809) was a French historical painter.
Also recorded as Jean Hippolyte Bardin · M. Bardin · P. Bardin · Bardin
Jean Bardin
Jean Bardin · katalog.muzeum.krakow.pl · Public domain
- Born
- 1732 · Montbard.
- Died
- 1809 · Orléans.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- history
- Honours
- Prix de Rome
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Adoration of the Magi, painting from 1781 at the Palace of Fontainebleau Jean Bardin (1732–1809) was a French historical painter.
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Jean-Baptiste Collet and Jean-Baptiste Regnault are recorded as having studied under Jean Bardin. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Places of work recorded in the authority are Italy and Paris. Work by Jean Bardin is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Kraków, Musée Magnin, Landesmuseum Mainz and Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome.
Bardin was born at Montbard in 1732. He was a pupil of Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée and later studied at Rome. He became a popular artist in France, and was admitted into the Academy in 1779. He was made director of the art school at Orléans in 1788. His subjects are partly historical, partly poetical, and sometimes religious. Bardin was the instructor, in the elements of art, of David and Regnault. He died at Orléans in 1809. His daughter, and pupil, was the painter Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin.
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• Tullia Drives over the Corpse of her Father
Jean Bardin (1732-1809) Alexandre malade donnant à son médecin la lettre qui l’accuse, 1774 Plume et encre brune, lavis brun et rehauts de gouache blanche - 18,3 x 30,5 cm Montbard, Musée Buffon
Jean Bardin
Jean Bardin (1732-1809) Lucius Albinus cédant son char aux vestales qu’il rencontre chargées de vases sacrées Huile sur papier marouflé sur carton - 45 x 64 cm Paris, collection particulière
Jean Bardin
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1732
Jean Bardin born at Montbard.
1809
Jean Bardin died at Orléans.
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Montbard.
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Orléans.
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- 1.Plume, encre brune (métallogallique), lavis brun et gris, rehauts de gouache, d’aquarelle et de sanguine sur traces de pierre noire, reprises à la plume et encre noire sur papier vergé beige, , signé et daté en bas à droite, à la plume et encre brune : « Bardin 87 » ; contrecollé.
- 2.Archives de Côte-d'Or, acte de baptême, vue 341 / 839.
- 3.Archives du Loiret, acte de décès n°1004, dressé le 07/10/1809, vue 335 / 440.
- 4.Nouveau Larousse illustré - Dictionnaire universel encyclopédique, tome 1, .
- 5.Le major Bardin est l'auteur d'un Manuel d'infanterie, publié en 1808.
- 6.Base Palissy PM78001260
- 7.Tullie fait passer son char sur le corps de son père. akg-images.fr.
- 8.Base Palissy PM64000071 .
- 9.Jean Bardin: 1732-1809 le feu sacré [exposition, Musée des beaux-arts, Orléans, 3 décembre 2022-30 avril 2023]. le Passage Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans. 2023. 978-2-84742-497-3.
- 10.Base Palissy PM59000421 .
- 11.Base Mémoire AP77W00467 .
- 12.RMN.
- 13.Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans.
- 14.Alexandre le Grand et le médecin Philippe d'Acarnanie, Jean Bardin, sur Cat'zArts.
- 15.De l’alcôve aux barricades de Fragonard à David. Beaux-Arts de Paris les éditions. 2016.
- 16.La Maladie d'Antiochus, Jean Bardin, sur Cat'zArts.
- 17.Alexandre le Grand et le médecin Philippe d'Arcanie . Cat'zArts.
- 18.Le dessin en partage. Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions. 2011. 978-2-84056-347-1.
- 19.La maladie d'Antiochus . Cat'zArts.
- 20.Base Joconde 50110001035 .
- 21.Dessins français du musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans. Le Trait et l’Ombre. musée des Beaux-Arts. 2022. 9 788836 651320.
- 22.Dessins français du musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans. Le Trait et l’Ombre. musée des Beaux-Arts. 2022. 9 788836 651320.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 7
- C. A. Chaudruc [Jean-César-Marie-Alexandre Chaudruc Crazannes], « Notice historique sur , peintre d’histoire », in Magasins encyclopédiques Alm, , .
- Jean du Seigneur, « Notice historique sur Jean Bardin, peintre d’histoire », Revue universelle des arts, t. 22, 1865-1866, (lire en ligne).
- Charles Michau, « Le peintre Jean Bardin. Directeur de la première École gratuite de dessin à Orléans (1732-1809) », in: Mémoires de la Société d’agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d’Orléans, vol. 76, t. VII, 1907, .
- Frédéric Jimeno, « Les Sacrements de Jean Bardin (1780-1790). Le grand genre face à la critique du Salon », in: Actes du colloque international d’histoire de l’art, Paris, INHA, 17- , Christophe Henry, Daniel Rabreau (dir.), Le public et la politique des arts au Siècle des Lumières, Annales du Centre Ledoux, t. VIII, 2011, (article en ligne sur academia.edu).
- Frédéric Jimeno, « Jean Bardin (1732-1809), La promenade de Téthys (1787) », in: D. Radrizzani (dir.), La tentation du dessin. Une collection particulière, Vevey, Musée Jenisch, - , Vevey, Musée Jenisch – Centre national du dessin, Lausanne, Les Éditions noir sur blanc, 2012, , (notice en ligne sur academia.edu).
- Bénézit. 2010. 9780199773787.
- Frédéric Jimeno, Mehdi. Korchane (com. sc.), Jean Bardin (1732-1809), le feu sacré, catalogue pour l'exposition au Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans du au , Paris, Éditions Le Passage, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2022. .
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The authorities additionally record the headings Jean Hippolyte Bardin, M. Bardin and Bardin. His recorded language was French. 2 children are recorded: Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin and Étienne Alexandre Bardin. Formation and teaching. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style. Bardin received Prix de Rome.
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National Museum in Kraków, Musée Magnin, Landesmuseum Mainz and Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau
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