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