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Portrait of Jean Baptiste Joseph Bolard
From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
According to the inscription on the back, the sitter was a pastor in Bannans near Pontarlier, located roughly halfway between Lausanne and Besançon. In 1768 the artist moved to Besançon, where he lived with interruptions until 1784.
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBildnis des Jean Baptiste Joseph Bolard. 1771. Johann Melchior Wyrsch (1732–1798). Kunstmuseum Basel, Ankauf mit Mitteln des Birmann-Fonds. Public domain.
