Jacques Raymond Brascassat

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Jacques Raymond Brascassat (born August 30, 1804 in Bordeaux , † February 28, 1867 in Paris ) was a French landscape and animal painter, as well as an etcher and lithographer.

Brascassat began his artistic career at the age of twelve as an apprentice to the decorator Lacaze. The landscape painter Théodore Richard helped him enter the city drawing school, where he became a student of Jean-Baptiste Dubourdieu.

Brascassat then studied at the Bordeaux Art School and at the École des beaux-arts de Paris with Louis Hersent .

In 1825 he won the second price of the Prix ​​de Rome for a historical landscape, which was not enough for an Italy scholarship. Only the support of the Duchess von Berry and King Charles X made it possible for him to spend four years in Italy. Between 1826 and 1830 he painted landscapes, which he exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1831.

From 1835 he devoted himself to painting animals. In 1827 he painted the Zarafa giraffe, a diplomatic gift from the Governor of Egypt Muhammad Ali Pasha to Charles X, which was considered the first giraffe on French territory.

In 1837 he was awarded the Legion of Honor.

In 1843 he made a second trip to Italy as well as trips to Scotland, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

In 1836 he set up his studio on the Montmartre hill. He was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1846 . His students included u. a. the painters Charles-François Daubigny and Ferdinand Chaigneau.

From 1831 Brascassat created a considerable number of lithographs, then from 1857 to 1860 etchings depicting the animal world.

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SURNAME Brascassat, Jacques Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French landscape and animal painter and eraser
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1867
Place of death Paris