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At the end of 1710, the French draughtsman and printmaker Bernard Picart (1673-1733) moved from Paris to Holland. After a short stay in The Hague he settled in Amsterdam permanently, and turned out to be a sought after, successful printmaker. Apart from a couple of scholars interested in his joint project with the book publisher L. F. Bernard, which is called C\u00e9r\u00e9monies et cout\u00fbmes religieuses de tous les peoples du monde, <\/em>the research into the work and activities of Picart is limited. His life and work is however relatively well documented by his contemporaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The present study is not intended as an complete story about Picart\u2019s life and works, but I present case studies by which I want to demonstrate the multifaceted yet concrete account of the varied visual uses to which printed images were put in his day, as well as the vital role they served in the formation of a set of mental habits and visual skills distinctive of Ancien R\u00e9gime<\/em> culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to properly understand this ambition, it is necessary or even essential to begin with a report about his life. The main source is the \u2018\u00c9loge historique\u2019 in the Impostures innocentes<\/em> published in 1734, a year after Picart’s death. It is supplemented with archival materials, most of which was collected by I.H. van Eeghen in De Amsterdamse boekhandel<\/em>.[1]<\/a> The correspondence with Picart\u2019s best friend Prosper Marchand, also provided additional information.[2]<\/a> But I am most grateful to the late professor doctor Pieter J.R. Modderman (1919-2005) who studied the family\u2019s genealogy (see Appendix 1).[3]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Impostures innocentes<\/em> was published by Picart\u2019s widow Anna Vincent, no doubt with the help of the family friend Prosper Marchand (1678-1756).[4]<\/a> This primary source has proven to be, except for a few small mistakes, reliable. Later biographers mainly depended on the aforementioned \u2018\u00c9loge\u2019.[5]<\/a> It has been suggested that the \u2018\u00c9loge historique\u2019 was written by Prosper Marchand, which cannot be proven.[6]<\/a> But he will certainly have helped Anne with the text and the content. In the collection Marchand there is a letter written to Anne Picart with the text of the \u2018Avertissement\u2019.[7]<\/a> But if Marchand wrote the \u2018\u00c9loge historique\u2019 a note would have been left in the collection Marchand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[i]<\/a> Van Eeghen 1960-1978. Professor Modderman (1919-2005) has been so kind to send me an account of his genealogical research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ii]<\/a> Marchand bequeathed his collection of books and manuscripts to the Leiden University Library in 1756. See UBL 021. The collection Marchand was made accessible by Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[iii]<\/a> Professor Modderman (1919-2005) has been so kind to send me an account of his genealogical research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[iv]<\/a> For more information on the publication of the Impostures innocentes <\/em> see chapter x, pp. x-x.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[v]<\/a> Chronologically: Fontenai 1761, dl 2, pp. 312-313; Gori Gandellini 1776, dl. 3, pp. 51-56; F\u00fcssli 1771, dl. 2, pp. 317-318; Strutt 1785-1786, dl. 2, pp. 225-226; Lacombe 1781, p. 267-268; Huber 1787, pp. 254-255; Basan 1789 (2de editie), dl. 1, pp. 89-92; Huber, Rost 1804, dl. 7, 261-265; Van Eynden, Van der Willigen 1816-1840, dl. 1, pp. 276-280; Joubert p\u00e8re 1821, dl. 2, 350-353; Nagler 1835-1852, dl. 11, pp. 257-265; Immerzeel 1842-1843, dl. 5, 303; De Chennevi\u00e8res, Montaiglon 1851-1860, dl.4, Picart; Van der Aa 1852-1878, dl. 5, pp. 270-271; Le Blanc 1854-1889, dl. 3, p490-496; Kramm 1864, dl. 4, 1277-1278; Portalis 1877, dl. 1, 501-508; Guilard 1880, pp. 118-119; Portalis, B\u00e9raldi 1882-1882, dl. 3:1, 302-306; Von Wurzbach 1910-1911, dl. 2, pp. 326-328; B\u00e9n\u00e9zit 1911-1923, dl. 8, p. 296; Kleerkooper, Van Stockum 1914-1916, dl. 1, 560-562; Bryan\u2019s Dictionary 1915, dl. 4, 112-113; Courboin 1924, dl. 2, pp. 43-45; Duportal in: Dimier 1928, dl. 1, pp. 365-398; Thieme, Becker 1907-1950, pp. 572-573; Waller 1938, p. 254; Van Eeghen 1960-1978, dl. 4, pp. 41-45; Turner 1996, dl. x, p.712; Hunt, Jacob, Mijnhart 2010a; Hunt, Jacob Mijnhardt 2010b, pp. 45-89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[vi]<\/a> Drury 2019, p. 11, and Berti 2007, Hunt 2015 p.180 and 176.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[vii]<\/a> Noot met verwijzing naar brief Marchand met Avertissement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[viii]<\/a> Van Eeghen 1967, dl. 4, pp. 41-45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ix]<\/a> Professor Modderman (1919-2005) has been so kind to send me an account of his genealogical research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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