DUVIVIER, Jan Bernard - b. 1762 Bruges, d. 1837 Paris - WGA

DUVIVIER, Jan Bernard

(b. 1762 Bruges, d. 1837 Paris)

Bernard Duvivier was a Flemish/French painter of the Neoclassical period, who was born in Bruges, Flanders, but became a celebrated painter in Paris, where he was appointed professor at the Ecole Normale.

Portrait of the Villers Family
Portrait of the Villers Family by

Portrait of the Villers Family

This highly symbolic family portrait is conceived almost in a fashion of a memorial. On the eve of the reign of terror that followed the French Revolution, this group, portrayed in the manner of a Dutch master, has the character of a ‘memento mori’ for a doomed aristocracy.

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