Jean-Bernard Duvivier

Jean-Bernard Duvivier 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 TesséCleopatra Captured by Roman Soldiers after the Death of Mark Antony, 1789, Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of RochesterPortrait of the Family Villers, 1790, Bruges, GroeningemuseumPortrait of a Noble Woman, 1806, Brooklyn MuseumScene of Deluge, Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie

Drawings

The Funeral of Hector, 1793, Brussels, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of BelgiumPortrait of François Maine de Biran, 1798, location unknownTroyan Soldier, 1800-1801, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts