Louis-Benoît Picard

Pauline Auzou, Louis-Benoît Picard and his family, 1807, shown at the 1808 Paris Salon. Within the painting is a portrait of Pickard Elder, for which she won a medal in the 1806 Paris Salon.

Louis-Benoît Picard (29 July 1769 in Paris – 31 December 1828 in Paris) was a French playwright, actor, novelist, poet and music director.

Biography Son of a lawyer, and nephew of a doctor, Picard refused to follow the careers of law and medicine, and dedicated himself to the theater encouraged by his friend François Andrieux. He first became an actor before producing his first play, Le Badinage dangereux, in 1789. La vraie bravoure (1793) Médiocre et rampant (1797) Le Collatéral (1799) Les Provinciaux à Paris (1801) Le Contrat d'union (1801) La Petite Ville (1801) Les voisins (1802) Les conjectures (1802) Le vieux comédien (1803) La Noce sans Mariage (1805) Le Susceptible (1805) Les oisifs (1809) Un lendemain de fortune, ou Les embarras du bonheur (1811) Un jeu de la fortune, ou Les marionnettes (1821)