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 Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...

at his high school."Childhood in Normandy"
, royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2007 Ochard had been a student of

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

(1748–1825), and lived in

Normandy Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ...

, to where Monet's family had moved in 1845. Ochard's method of instruction was the traditional one of drawing from

plaster cast A plaster cast is a copy made in plaster of another 3-dimensional form. The original from which the cast is taken may be a sculpture, building, a face, a pregnant belly, a fossil or other remains such as fresh or fossilised footprints – ...

s 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 {{France-painter-18thC-stub