Henri Bonnart

Engraving of Marie Thérèse de Bourbon by Henri Bonart, c.1690. Collection of the Museum of Ile-de-France

Henri Bonnart (1642 – 1711) was a French painter and engraver. He was born in Paris in 1642, became rector of the Académie de Saint-Luc, and died in Paris in 1711. Le Blanc attributes to him 201 plates, of which 20 are religious subjects, 46 portraits, and 135 costume prints.

He had three brothers: Robert, Jean-Baptiste, and Nicolas Bonnart.

His son, Jean Baptiste Henri Bonnart, followed his father's profession, and died in 1726, aged about 48 years. In Perrault's Cabinet des Beaux- Arts, published in Paris in 1690, there is a plate of a ceiling ornamented with figures, which is probably by him. It is etched in a free, masterly style, finished with the graver, and marked "Jean Bonnart, Junior, del. et sculpt."

Gallery

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  Saint Barbara (1690)
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  Madame la marquise de Florensac (1694)
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  Le Printemps, personification of spring
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  L'Automne, personification of autumn
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  Duchess of Savoy, Anne Marie d'Orléans after her marriage

References

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