Bernard Picart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bernard Picart

French engraver

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1673

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 08-May-1733

Profession: engraver, artist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Bernard Picart (11 June 1673 – 8 May 1733), was a French engraver, son of Etienne Picart, also an engraver.
He was born in Paris and died in Amsterdam.
He moved to Antwerp in 1696, and then spent a year in Amsterdam before returning to France at the end of 1698.
After his wife died in 1708, he moved to Amsterdam in 1711 (later being joined by his father), where he became a Protestant convert and married again.Most of his work was book-illustrations, including the Bible and Ovid.
His most famous work is Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, appearing from 1723 to 1743.
Jonathan I.
Israel calls Cérémonies "an immense effort to record the religious rituals and beliefs of the world in all their diversity as objectively and authentically as possible".
Although Picart had never left Europe, he relied on accounts by those who had and had access to a collection of Indian sculpture.
The original French edition of Cérémonies comprises ten volumes of text and engravings. Israel notes also that Picart left Paris with Prosper Marchand, and collaborated on the Cérémonies with Jean-Frédéric Bernard, with a commitment to religious toleration.
Picart, Marchand and Charles Levier belonged to a "radical Huguenot coterie".



Alternative names	Nicolaes Verkolje
Description	Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker and ornamental painter Nicolaas Verkolje by Jacob Houbraken, ca. 1752
Date of birth/death	11 April 1673	21 January 1746
Location of birth/death	Delft	Amsterdam
Work period	from 1700 until 1746 date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1746-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Amsterdam
Authority control	: Q1702971 VIAF: 95316863 ISNI: 0000 0001 1937 9434 ULAN: 500004346 LCCN: nb2003098619 WGA: VERKOLJE, Nicolaas WorldCat



Description	French painter and artist
Date of birth/death	17 March 1685	7 November 1766
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work period	1700s-1750s
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q277738 VIAF: 61708615 ISNI: 0000 0000 8141 1717 ULAN: 500120754 LCCN: n90662682 MusicBrainz: b25ab8a0-a7d3-45a4-846f-1b1b0473e950 WorldCat