Jean-Bernard Duvivier Explained

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

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

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