Bernard Picart (1673-1733) was a
FrenchFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
engraver, son of Etienne Picart, also an engraver. He was born in
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
and died in
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. He moved to Antwerp in 1696, and then spent a year in Amsterdam before returning to France at the end of 1698. After his wife died in 1708, he moved to Amsterdam in 1711 (later being joined by his father), where he became a Protestant convert and married again.
Most of his work was book-illustrations.
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Bernard Picart (1673-1733) was a
FrenchFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
engraver, son of Etienne Picart, also an engraver. He was born in
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
and died in
AmsterdamAmsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...
. He moved to Antwerp in 1696, and then spent a year in Amsterdam before returning to France at the end of 1698. After his wife died in 1708, he moved to Amsterdam in 1711 (later being joined by his father), where he became a Protestant convert and married again.
Most of his work was book-illustrations. His most famous work is
Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, appearing from 1723 to 1743. Jonathan I. Israel calls Cérémonies "an immense effort to record the religious rituals and beliefs of the world in all their diversity as objectively and authentically as possible", although he had never left Europe. He relied on accounts by those who had, and had access to a collection of Indian sculpture. The original French edition of "Cérémonies" comprises ten volumes of text and engravings.
Israel notes also that Picart left Paris with Prosper Marchand, and collaborated on the
Cérémonies with Jean-Frédéric Bernard, with a commitment to
religious tolerationReligious toleration is the condition of accepting or permitting others' religious beliefs and practices which disagree with one's own.In a country with a state religion, toleration means that the government permits religious practices of other sects besides the state religion, and does not...
. Picart, Marchand and Charles Levier belonged to a "radical Huguenot coterie".
"Cérémonies" engravings
- Vol. 1: Asie, Afrique and Amérique (Asia, Africa and America)- 30 engravings
- Vol. 2 - 33 engravings
- Vol. 3 - 19 engravings
- Vol. 4 - 14 engravings
- Vol. 5 - 26 engravings
- Vol. 6 - 45 engravings
- Vol. 7 - 58 engravings
- Vol. 8 - 5 engravings
- Vol. 9 - 24 engravings
- Vol. 10- 12 engravings