Jacques-François Ochard (1800–1870) was a French artist, remembered as the first art teacher of
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Durin ...
at his high school.
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Ochard had been a student of
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), and lived in
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
, to where Monet's family had moved in 1845. Ochard's method of instruction was the traditional one of drawing from
plaster casts of the human figure.
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1800 births
1870 deaths
19th-century French painters
French male painters
Pupils of Jacques-Louis David
18th-century French male artists
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