Jean Bardin

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Adoration of the Magi, painting from 1781 at the Palace of Fontainebleau.

Jean Bardin, a French historical painter, born at Montbard in 1732, was a pupil of Lagrénée, the elder; and afterwards studied at Rome. He became a popular artist in France, and was admitted into the Academy in 1779. He was made director of the art school at Orléans in 1788. His subjects are partly historical, partly poetical, and sometimes religious. He was the instructor, in the elements of art, of David and Regnault. He died at Orléans in 1809.

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This article incorporates text from the article "BARDIN, Jean" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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Name	Bardin, Jean
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Short description	French painter
Date of birth	1732
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Date of death	1809
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