Paul Joseph Bardou

Paul Joseph Bardou (1745, Basel - 1 February 1814, Berlin) was a German portrait painter.

He was born to Antoine Bardou (1697–1783), a stocking weaver from Languedoc, and his wife Elisabeth Suzanne Pederotta.

He attended the Französisches Gymnasium Berlin but, since the time he was only eleven, he had been taking drawing lessons at the Academy of Arts with Blaise Nicholas Le Sueur.

By 1806, he was already being confused with the portrait painter, Johann P. Bardou [pl], a Baltic-German artist who worked in Warsaw and St. Petersburg.

Among his best known portraits are those of the poet, Johann Timotheus Hermes, Princess Louise of Prussia, Henri de Catt (private secretary to Frederick the Great), and the composer, Carl Friedrich Zelter.