Bernard Gaillot

French painter
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Quick Facts

IntroFrench painter
PlacesFrance
wasPainter
Work fieldArts
Gender
Male
Birth17 February 1780, Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
Death17 June 1847Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France (aged 67 years)
Star signAquarius
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Biography

Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, portrait from 1835

Bernard Gaillot, a French historical painter, born at Versailles in 1780, was a pupil of David. He died in Paris in 1847.

His principal pictures are:

  • Cornelia. 1817.
  • St. Martin. (Val-de-Grâce, Paris.)
  • Conversion of St. Augustine. 1819. (Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Paris.)
  • Dream of St. Monica. 1822. (The same)
  • St. Louis visiting the Holy Sepulchre. (Sacristy of St. Denis.)
  • St. Louis bearing the Crown of Thorns. 1824. (Palais synodal, Sens.)
  • Holy Angels. 1824. (In a Chapel at Lille)
  • Dream of St. Joseph. 1824. (Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris.)
  • The Assumption. 1827. (The town of Eu.)
  • Christ blessing little Children. 1831.
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