Prof. Francesco Carelli


Painted lithographed by Zéphirin Belliard.
Portraits of Hortense Beauharnais Queen of Holland
and Caroline Bonaparte Murat Queen of the two Sicily

 

Zéphirin Félix Jean Marius Belliard was born in Marseille on February 16, 1798, and died in Aix-en-Provence on March 28, 1871. He was a famous French lithographer and miniaturist painter. The son of a goldsmith, he enrolled at the Paris School of Fine Arts in 1817. Notably, he studied under the tutelage of Augustin Aubert and Paulin Guérin. Belliard exhibited his works at the Paris Salon between 1822 and 1843.
Zéphirin Belliard was renowned for his lithographed portraits of various and historical personalities, often based on paintings by other artists, whether contemporary or from different periods. It was in his workshop in Marseille that Honoré Daumier, whose father was a friend of Belliard, first discovered the art of lithography.