Bernard Gaillot
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, portrait from 1835
Bernard Gaillot, a French historical painter, born at Versailles in 1780, was a pupil of 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. (Sens Cathedral.)
- 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.
Notes
This article incorporates text from the article "GAILLOT, Bernard" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
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