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Sébastien Bourdon
Sébastien Bourdon

Sébastien Bourdon

French, 1616 - 1671
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Sébastien Bourdon was a French painter and engraver. His chef d'œuvre is The Crucifixion of St. Peter made for the cathedral of Notre Dame.

Bourdon was born in Montpellier, France, the son of a Protestant painter on glass. He was apprenticed to a painter in Paris. In spite of his poverty he managed to get to Rome in 1636; there he studied the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and Caravaggio among his eclectic selection of models, until he was forced to flee in 1638, to escape a feared prosecution for his Reformed Protestant faith.

He lived in Paris from 1637 to 1652. In 1648, Bourdon was one of the founders of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and was elected as one of the original twelve elders in charge of its running.

In 1652 he departed for Sweden and Queen Christina of Sweden made him her first court painter.

Bourdon's facility rendered him adept at portraiture, whether in a dashing Rubens manner or in intimate, sympathetic bust-length or half-length portraits isolated against plain backgrounds that set a formula for middle-class portraiture for the rest of the century, landscapes in the manner of Gaspar Dughet or capricci of ruins, mythological "history painting" like other members of Poussin's circle or the genre subjects of the Dutch Bamboccianti who were working in Rome. His eclectic range of styles have given art historians exercise in tracing his adaptation of his models, while the lack of an immediately recognizable "Bourdon style" has somewhat dampened public appreciation. Some of his work was in the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism.

Bourdon spent most of his working career outside France, where, though he was a founding member of the Académie royale, he was for long largely dismissed as a pasticheur, a situation partly rebalanced by a comprehensive exhibition in 2000 of his work at the Musée Fabre, where the collection includes a fine Lamentation painted in the last years of his life.

His success required the establishment of an extensive atelier, where his pupils included Nicolas-Pierre Loir and Pierre Mosnier. He died in Paris in 1671.

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The Baptism of Christ

The Baptism of Christ (ca. 1650)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
Le Repos de la Sainte Famille avec sainte Catherine

Le Repos de la Sainte Famille avec sainte Catherine

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
Queen Christina

Queen Christina

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Figurative
King Charles X Gustavus

King Charles X Gustavus

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Figurative
Presenting the Bikkurim (first fruits) at the Temple

Presenting the Bikkurim (first fruits) at the Temple

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
Paysage historique

Paysage historique (1640-1650)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Landscape
Crucifiement de saint Pierre

Crucifiement de saint Pierre (1643)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the infant Saint John the Baptist

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the infant Saint John the Baptist

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
The Adoration Of The Golden Calf

The Adoration Of The Golden Calf

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
Kitchen with Hare

Kitchen with Hare

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Still Life
The Presentation In The Temple

The Presentation In The Temple

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro

Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro (17th century)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
Christ Receiving the Children

Christ Receiving the Children (c. 1655)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
The Departure of Jacob

The Departure of Jacob

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
The Finding of Moses

The Finding of Moses (c. 1655-1660)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
Countess Ebba Sparre

Countess Ebba Sparre (1652-1653)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Figurative
A Classical Landscape

A Classical Landscape (probably 1660s)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Landscape
King Solomon Sacrificing To The Idols

King Solomon Sacrificing To The Idols

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
Sacrificial Scene

Sacrificial Scene

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Figurative
Et in Arcadia Ego

Et in Arcadia Ego (ca. 1637–38)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
The Holy Family With Saint Elizabeth And The Infant Saint John The Baptist

The Holy Family With Saint Elizabeth And The Infant Saint John The Baptist

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Religion
Abraham und die drei Engel

Abraham und die drei Engel (ca 1650-1669)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Drawings
Adoration of the shepherds

Adoration of the shepherds

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Drawings
Cincinnatus wird direkt vom Pflug weg zum Diktator Roms berufen

Cincinnatus wird direkt vom Pflug weg zum Diktator Roms berufen

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Drawings
Die Heilige Familie mit Elisabeth und dem Johannesknaben mit der Wäscherin

Die Heilige Familie mit Elisabeth und dem Johannesknaben mit der Wäscherin

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Drawings
Johannes predigt in der Wüste

Johannes predigt in der Wüste

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Drawings
Maria legt das Kind schlafen

Maria legt das Kind schlafen

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Drawings
The Israelites Dancing around the Golden Calf

The Israelites Dancing around the Golden Calf (1645)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)
Drawings

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