Jacques Raymond Brascassat

Jacques Raymond Brascassat studied at école des beaux-arts de Bordeaux and Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Théodore Richard, Jean-Baptiste Dubourdieu and Louis Hersent is recorded. Charles-François Daubigny and Ferdinand Chaigneau are recorded as having studied under Jacques Raymond Brascassat. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are animal and landscape. Works named in the authority record are Study of a Bull. Work by Jacques Raymond Brascassat is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Gallery of Canada, Rijksmuseum, National Galleries Scotland and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Brascassat was born in Bordeaux, Southwestern France, and studied art in Paris under Louis Hersent at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He won second place in the Prix de Rome of 1825 with a picture of the Hunt of Meleager. He went to Italy and painted a number of landscapes which were exhibited between 1827 and 1835, but subsequently he devoted himself mainly to animal painting, in which his reputation as an artist was made. His Bulls Fighting (1837) in the Nantes Museum of Arts, Nantes, France and a similar painting (1855) Museum of Fine Arts of Huston, Texas, US and his Cow Attacked by Wolves (1845) in Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany, are considered some of the best of his paintings. He was known for the accuracy of his observation, drawing and painting. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1846. He died in Paris on 28 February 1867.

• Illustration — Two bulls defend a cow attacked by wolves • Illustration — A bull • Illustration — A dog • Illustration — A bull fight • Illustration — Zarafa the giraffe, journey to Paris • Illustration — View of Bordeaux • Illustration — Veduta di Bordeaux 1 • Illustration — Paesaggio presso Orléans • Illustration — Paesaggio italiano • Illustration — Rural Afternoon View