Jacques Blanchard

Jacques Blanchard (1600-1638), also known as Jacques Blanchart, was a French baroque painter who was born in Paris. He was raised and taught by his uncle, the painter Nicolas Bollery (ca. 1560-1630). Jacques’s brother and son, Jean-Baptiste Blanchard (after 1602-1665) and Gabriel Blanchard (1630-1704), respectively were also painters.

Jacques spent the years from 1624 to 1628 studying in Bologna and Venice. After briefly working in Turin at the court of the Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (c.1628) he returned to France and set himself up in Paris in 1629. Jacques Blanchard is best known for his small religious and mythological paintings. He died in Paris in 1638. This painter should not be confused with the French sculptor of the same name who lived from 1634 to 1689.

References

* Thuillier, Jacques, "Jacques Blanchard, 1600-1638", Rennes, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, 1998.

External links

* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/blanchard_jacques.html Jacques Blanchard in ArtCyclopedia]