Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret

Bio

Bergeret was a member of the generation of David students who initiated the troubadour style of historic genre painting. He was from a family of Bordeaux printers and publishers and received his first artistic training there under Pierre Lacour the Elder. In the late 1790’s he went to Paris and entered first the studio of François-André Vincent and then of Jacques-Louis David where he worked alongside François Marius Granet and J.-A.-D. Ingres, with whom he became good friends.