Félix Brissot
Félix Saturnin Brissot de Warville (born May 7, 1818 in Véron , † June 26, 1892 in Versailles ) was a French painter.
Life
Félix Brissot was a grandson of Jacques Pierre Brissot . He studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris with Léon Cogniet . He specialized in landscape and animal pictures and painted mainly in the Duchy of Berry in the area of Compiègne and in the forest of Fontainebleau . Here he came into contact with the painters of Barbizon . He was later also director of the museums of the Compiègne Palace .
His works are now in French museums as well as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , the Brooklyn Museum and the Museo Correale di Terranova in Sorrento .
literature
- Claude Marumo: Barbizon et les paysagistes du XIXe . Editions de l'Amateur, 1975.
Web links
Commons : Félix Brissot - Collection of images, videos and audio files
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brissot, Felix |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brissot de Warville, Félix Saturnin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Véron |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1892 |
| Place of death | Versailles |