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 The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (; en, "Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abol ...

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 Biscuit porcelain, bisque porcelain or bisque is unglazed, white porcelain treated as a final product, with a matte appearance and texture to the touch. It has been widely used in European pottery, mainly for sculptural and decorative objects th ...

, which he was the first to use as a final product, in 1751 at Sèvres.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, Previously this material was no more than a first stage in the

porcelain Porcelain () is a ceramic material made by heating substances, generally including materials such as kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between . The strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arises mainl ...

manufacturing process.

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

(French edition), including Roman Charity (1765). File:Jean-Jacques Bachelier (Un chat Angola).jpg, An Angora cat, by Jean-Jacques Bachelier File:Birds painting.jpg, Jean-Jacques Bachelier, ''Four parts of the world'', oil on canvas File:Jean-Jacques Bachelier - Still life with flowers and a violin - Google Art Project.jpg, 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 Anne Claude de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, ''comte de Caylus'', marquis d'Esternay, baron de Bransac (Anne Claude Philippe; 31 October, 16925 September 1765), was a French antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters. Born in ...

. Paris 1755

Sources

Dictionnaire Bouillet ''Dictionnaire Bouillet'' is the informal title of the ''Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie'' ("Universal Dictionary of History and Geography"), a French reference work in the public domain. The first edition was published in 18 ...

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