Bernard Picard / Louis Fabricius Dubourg / François Morellon La Cave

BERNARD PICARD / LOUIS FABRICiUS DUBOURG / FRANÇOIS MORELLON LA CAVE.
"Religious and social ceremonies in Europe."
Three 18th century Dutch engravings.
Text in French.
Edited in Amsterdam by Jean Frédéric Bernard.
Soiling, moisture stains, cracks, creases and some tearing. Reintegrations in the paper.
They were part of the book "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde", which appeared from 1723 to 1743.
Measurements: 35 x 24 cm (larger) .
Bernard Picard was a French engraver. His father Etienne Picart was also an engraver. He moved to Antwerp in 1696, then spent a year in Amsterdam, before returning to France in late 1698. After his wife died in 1708, he moved to Amsterdam in 1711. Most of his work was illustrations of books, including the Bible and works by Ovid. His most famous work is Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, which appeared from 1723 to 1743 and was an immense effort to record the religious rituals and beliefs of the world in all their diversity, as objectively and authentically as possible.
Louis Fabricius Dubourg (1693-1775). was a historicist painter, scholar of Arcadian landscapes and an engraver. He cooperated with Bernard Picart. After producing several beautiful paintings, some of which can be seen in Westerkerk , the New Church and the town hall of Amsterdam , he changed the brush for the graver and executed some vignettes and other small compositions, and also engraved several plates of his own designs. He collaborated with members of the Stadstekenacademie, Amsterdam, such as Jacob Folkema, François Morellon, Cornelis Troost, Simon Fokke, Michiel Elgersma and Pieter Tanjé.
François Morellon La Cave, born in April 1696 in The Hague and died in July 1768 in Amsterdam, is a painter and engraver of French origin active in Holland in the 18th century.
Jean-Frédéric Bernard (1683-1744) was a French publisher and writer. Born into a Huguenot family, he took refuge in Amsterdam because of the persecutions to which the Huguenots were subjected in France during the period in which Bernard lived.Jean - Frédéric Bernard's most famous work is probably the encyclopedia of religions entitled Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde, created in collaboration with the engraver and designer Bernard Picart between 1723 and 1743. This work is considered "the book that changed Europe" by scholars Lynn Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt, according to whom Cérémonies is the first major comparative study of religions published in the Old Continent, constituting a significant contribution to religious tolerance, appeared on the cultural scene in times of persecution and conflicts between religious communities.