Jacques-François Ochard
Illustration — La Jeune Italienne by Jacques-François Ochard Jacques-François Ochard (1800–1870) was a French artist, remembered as the first art teacher of Claude Monet at his high school. Ochard had been a student of Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), and lived in Normandy, 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.
Jacques-François Ochard
Jacques-François Ochard · Public domain
- Born
- 1800 · Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
- Died
- 1870 · Le Havre.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — La Jeune Italienne by Jacques-François Ochard Jacques-François Ochard (1800–1870) was a French artist, remembered as the first art teacher of Claude Monet at his high school. Ochard had been a student of Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), and lived in Normandy, 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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Born at Saint-Valery-en-Caux in 1800, died in Le Havre in 1870.
The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Positions recorded include curator.
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- 1.Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime, cote 4E 08833, acte de décès , vue 29 / 392.
- 2.Albert Anthiaume, Le Collège du Havre, contribution à l'histoire de l'enseignement secondaire en France et particulièrement au Havre (1579-1865), 2 vol., Le Havre, éd. Havre-Éclair, 1905, et . Ochard habite 1, rue de la Mailleraye au Havre. Lors du Salon de 1841, il a une adresse à Paris. Jusqu'à la fin de sa vie, il est conservateur du musée du Havre, lieu qui sera peint par Monet (tableau 261).
- 3.Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, tome I, Genève, 1974, .
- 4.Lhuillier réalisera en 1861 le Portrait de Claude Monet en uniforme (Paris, musée Marmottan-Monet).
- 5.Ochard est domicilié , l'œuvre est listée sans astérisque, c'est dire qu'elle est vendue .
- 6.Il est domicilié au Havre, l'œuvre est listée sans astérisque .
- 7.Il est domicilié au Havre et à Paris, chez , 7, rue de Cléry ; l'œuvre est listée sans astérisque .
- 8.Exposition de Rouen. Journal de Rouen. 190. 2 col. 3 . 9 juillet 1841.
- 9.Dictionnaire Bénézit, volume 10.
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- Albert Anthiaume, Le Collège du Havre, contribution à l'histoire de l'enseignement secondaire en France et particulièrement au Havre (1579-1865), 2 vol., Le Havre, éd. Havre-Éclair, 1905.
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