Bernard Gaillot, a French historical painter, born at Versailles in 1780, was a pupil of Jacques-Louis 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.)[1]
- 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.
References edit
- ^ St. Louis bearing the Crown of Thorns(in French)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "GAILLOT, Bernard". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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