Bernard Picart — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Semele Consumed by Jupiter’s Thunder (Semelé, consumée par la foudre de Jupiter), plate XII from The Temple of Muses (Le Temple des Muses)

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2025 · Accession 2024.1245 · Engraving and etching in black on ivory laid paper

Gift of Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers

Prometheus Tortured by a Vulture (Prométhée déchiré par un vautour), plate V from The Temple of Muses (Le Temple des Muses),

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2025 · Accession 2024.1244 · Engraving and etching in black on ivory laid paper

Gift of Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers

Vignette from the Battle of Milvian

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2018 · Accession 2018.844.6 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

Gift of Richard A. Berman, 2018

Vignette from the Battle of Milvian

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2018 · Accession 2018.844.4 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

Gift of Richard A. Berman, 2018

Vignette from the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2018 · Accession 2018.844.3 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

Gift of Richard A. Berman, 2018

Vignette from the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2018 · Accession 2018.844.1 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

Gift of Richard A. Berman, 2018

Epithalamium, at center a winged putto seated on a peacock standing on a barrel, at left a figure in fur-lined hat and outercoat holds a piece of wood over a brazier, at right a figure dressed in an ivy crown holds a goblet in one hand and a bottle in the other, surrounded by scrollwork and grapevines

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2012 · Accession 2012.136.236 · Etching

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Portrait of Andrea Palladio in half-length within an oval frame; a compass, carpenter's square, and plumb line rest on the plinth below the oval, from an unidentified edition of 'Architecture de Palladio,' revised by Giacomo Leoni and translated by Nicholas du Bois

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2012 · Accession 2012.136.59 · Engraving

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Tambours Magiques des Lapons

Hammer Museum · Los Angeles, United States · Acquired 2009 · Accession AH.2009.50.1G · Copperplate engraving on handmade laid paper

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchase

Althaea Putting the Fatal Log on the Fire

Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland, United States · Acquired 2008 · Accession 2008.360 · Red chalk on beige laid paper, incised for transfer

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Marriage Ceremony of the Panama Indians

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2007 · Accession 2007.49.410 · Engraving

Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005

Design for a Frontispiece

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2003 · Accession 2003.388.1 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and black ink

Gift of Anne K. Jones, in memory of Edward Powis Jones, 2003

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Bernard Picart dies

Jan 1, 1733

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Bernard Picart born

Jan 1, 1673

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