Bernard Gaillot

Bernard Gaillot, a French historical painter, born at Versailles in 1780, was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David.

Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, portrait from 1835

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
  1. 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). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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