Jean-Jacques Bachelier

French ceramicist and painter

Jean-Jacques Bachelier (1724–1806) was a French painter and director of the porcelain factory at Sèvres.

Admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1752, he founded an art school using his own means in Paris in 1765 for the artisans in the historic collège d'Autun (rue de l'école de médecine), which survived until the 19th century.

He was in effect the inventor of unglazed biscuit porcelain, which he was the first to use as a final product, in 1751 at Sèvres.^[1] Previously this material was no more than a first stage in the porcelain manufacturing process.

Works

For a list of works see: Jean-Jacques Bachelier (French edition), including Roman Charity (1765).

An Angora cat, by Jean-Jacques Bachelier
Jean-Jacques Bachelier, Four parts of the world, oil on canvas
Jean-Jacques Bachelier - Still life with flowers and a violin - Google Art Project

Written works

Histoire et secret de la peinture à la cire, contre le sentiment du comte de Caylus. Paris 1755

Sources

^ Honey, W.B., Old English Porcelain: A Handbook for Collectors, p. 10, note 1, 1977, 3rd edn. revised by Franklin A. Barrett, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0571049028