Bernard Gaillot

Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, portrait from 1835

Bernard Gaillot, a French historical painter, born at Versailles in 1780, was a pupil of David. He died in Paris in 1847.

His principal pictures are:

• Cornelia. 1817.
• St. Martin. (Val-de-Grâce, Paris.)
• Conversion of St. Augustine. 1819. (Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Paris.)
• Dream of St. Monica. 1822. (The same)
• St. Louis visiting the Holy Sepulchre. (Sacristy of St. Denis.)
• St. Louis bearing the Crown of Thorns. 1824. (Sens Cathedral.)
• Holy Angels. 1824. (In a Chapel at Lille)
• Dream of St. Joseph. 1824. (Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris.)
• The Assumption. 1827. (The town of Eu.)
• Christ blessing little Children. 1831.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "GAILLOT, Bernard". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.