Bachelier, Jean-Jacques

(1724 Paris-4/13/1806 Paris) (France)

   Flower, animal, and history painter, ornamental engraver, sculptor, writer, and ceramic industry administrator. Studied at the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Pupil of J-B Pierre, member of Academie Royale, Director of manufacture at Sevres, opened the Ecole Royale Gratuite de Dessin in 1766, and became director of the Academie de Peinture de Marseille. His erotic works consist of small porcelain sculptures.

   Reproductions: [Woman copulating with a Herm]; porcelain; c1800; Klinger, 1984a: fig. 1333 . [Woman copulating with sculpture of Priapus]; porcelain; c1800; Klinger, 1984a: fig. 1334 [B].

   [b]Source: AKL VI 1992: p. 138s; Benezit, vol. 1: p. 925; DoA v3: p. 19; ThB 111908: p. 312.