Jacques Raymond Brascassat - Autoportrait

Jacques Raymond Brascassat (August 30, 1804 – February 28,1867) was a famous French painter noted for his landscapes, and in particular his animal paintings.

Biography

Brascassat was born in

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, Southwestern France, and studied art in Paris under

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at the

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in Paris. He won second place in the

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of 1825 with a picture of the ''Hunt of Meleager''. He went to

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and painted a number of landscapes which were exhibited between 1827 and 1835, but subsequently he devoted himself mainly to animal painting, in which his reputation as an artist was made. His ''Bulls Fighting'' (1837) in the ''Nantes Museum of Arts'', Nantes, France and a similar painting (1855) ''Museum of Fine Arts of Huston'', Texas, USA and his ''Cow Attacked by Wolves'' (1845) in ''Museum of Fine Arts'', Leipzig, Germany, are considered some of the best of his paintings. He was known for the accuracy of his observation, drawing and painting. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1846. He died in Paris on the 28th of February 1867.

Gallery

File:Jacques Raymond Brascassat - Deux taureaux défendre contre une vache attaqués par des loups.jpg, Two bulls defend a cow attacked by wolves File:Jacques Raymond Brascassat 001.jpg, A bull File:Jacques Raymond Brascassat - Un lévrier reposant sur la chaise (1836).jpg, A dog File:Jacques-Raymond Brascassat - A Bull Fight - Google Art Project.jpg, A bull fight File:Giraffe Crossing (1827) by Jacques Raymond Brascassat.jpg, Zarafa the giraffe, journey to Paris File:Jacques-Raymond Brascassat - Deux vues de Bordeaux (1).jpg, View of Bordeaux File:Jacques-Raymond Brascassat - Deux vues de Bordeaux (2).jpg, Veduta di

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References

* 19th-century French painters French male painters Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Members of the Académie des beaux-arts 1804 births 1867 deaths 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub