Henri Pierre Léon Pharamond Blanchard (1805–1873) was a French lithographer, and painter of landscapes and historical subjects.
Life
Blanchard was born at La Guillotière, a suburb of
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...
, in 1805. He studied under
Antoine-Jean Gros, travelled in many distant countries, and went to Mexico with the French expedition of 1858–9. In 1856 he was in Russia, and was present at the coronation of
Alexander II.
[ Much of his career was devoted to ]lithography
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...
, and he contributed extensively to ''L'Illustration
''L'Illustration'' was a weekly French newspaper published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, after 1906, the ...
''.[
]
Works
His principal works include:.[
*''Bull-Hunting''.
*'' Puente Colgado of Aranjuez''. 1834.
*''The Smugglers''. 1836.
*''The Disarmament of Vera Cruz''. 1840. (At ]Versailles
The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, ...
.)
*''The Street of El Alari at Tangiers''.
*''San Isidoro Labrador, the Patron Saint of Madrid''.
*''Vasco Nuñez de Balboa discovering the South Sea''. ( Paris Univ. Exhib. 1855.)
*''The Valley of Jehoshaphat''. (Paris Univ. Exhib. 1855.)
*''The Arrival of the French at Plan-del-Rio''. 1865.
*''Farm Yard at Chatou''.
*''The Djiguietofka''.
*''An American Glade''.
References
Sources
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19th-century French painters
French male painters
Artists from Lyon
1805 births
1873 deaths
Pupils of Antoine-Jean Gros
19th-century French male artists
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