Jacques Blanchard (1600–1638)

• Was a French baroque painter who was born in Paris.
• He was raised and taught by his uncle, the painter Nicolas Bollery.
• Jacques’s brother and son, Jean-Baptiste Blanchard and Gabriel Blanchard, respectively were also painters.

• In October 1624, Blanchard travelled to Rome in the company of his brother Jean.

• Later, around April or May 1626, Blanchard progressed to Venice, where he remained for two more years and it was here that his style matured.

• Blanchard’s first major French commission is his earliest surviving dated work, the Virgin with the Christ Child Giving the Keys to St Peter, painted in Lyon in 1629.

• In addition to his religious, literary and mythological subjects, Blanchard was also a sensitive portrait painter.

• He died of consumption in Paris in 1638.

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