Bernard Gaillot, a French historical painter, born at Versailles in 1780, was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. He died in Paris in 1847. His principal pictures are: * Cornelia. 1817. * St. Martin. (Val-de-Grâce, Paris.) * Conversion of St. Augustine. 1819. (Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Paris.) * Dream of St. Monica. 1822. (The same) * St. Louis visiting the Holy Sepulchre. (Sacristy of St. Denis.) * St. Louis bearing the Crown of Thorns. 1824. (Palais synodal, Sens.) * Holy Angels. 1824. (In a Chapel at Lille) * Dream of St. Joseph. 1824. (Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris.) * The Assumption. 1827. (The town of Eu.) * Christ blessing little Children. 1831.