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BRASCASSAT, JACQUES RAYMOND (1804–1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRASCASSAT, JACQUES See also:RAYMOND (1804–1867) , See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Bordeaux, and studied See also:art in See also:Paris, where in 1825 he won a prix de See also:Rome with a picture (" See also:Chasse de Meleagre ") now in the Bordeaux See also:gallery. He went to See also:Italy and painted a number of landscapes which were exhibited between 1827 and 1835; but subsequently he devoted himself mainly to See also:animal-See also:painting, in which his reputation as an artist was made. His " Lutte de taureaux " (1837), in the musee at See also:Nantes, and his " Vache attaquee See also:par See also:des loups " (1845), in the See also:Leipzig museum, were perhaps the best of his pictures; but he was remarkable for his accuracy of observation and correct See also:drawing. He was elected a member of the See also:Institute in 1846. He died at Paris on the 28th of See also:February 1867.

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