Bernard Picart
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Bernard Picart (1673-1733) was a French engraver. He was born in Paris and died in Amsterdam. He moved to Amsterdam in 1710, and shortly afterwards became a Protestant convert.[1] He notes also that Picart left Paris with Prosper Marchand[1], and collaborated on the 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' with Jean-Frédéric Bernard, with a commitment to religious toleration. Picart, Marchand and Charles Levier belonged to a radical Huguenot coterie[2].
His seminal work is Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, appearing from 1721 to 1743. Jonathan I. Israel[3] 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. The original French impression of "Cérémonies" is comprised of ten volumes of original Picard hand pressed engravings.
[edit] "Cérémonies" Engravings
- Vol. 1: Asie, Afrique and Amérique (Asia, Africa and America)- 30 engravings
- Vol. 2 - 33 engravings
- Vol. 3 - 19 engravings
- Vol. 4 - 14 engravings
- Vol. 5 - 26 engravings
- Vol. 6 - 45 engravings
- Vol. 7 - 58 engravings
- Vol. 8 - 5 engravings
- Vol. 9 - 24 engravings
- Vol. 10- 12 engravings
[edit] Reference
- Margaret Jacob, Bernard Picart and the Turn to Modernity, De Achttiende eeuw, vol. 37, 2005, pp. 1-16.
