Jean-Baptiste Lavastre
Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (24 August 1839 – 24 April 1891) was a French landscape painter and scenic designer.
Also recorded as J.-B. Lavastre
Jean-Baptiste Lavastre
Pierre-Auguste Lamy / Jean-Baptiste Lavastre / Édouard Desplechin · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
- Name
- Jean-Baptiste Lavastre
- Born
- 24 August 1839
- Died
- 24 April 1891
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Occupation
- Painter, scenic director
- Nationality
- France
- Teachers
- Édouard Desplechin
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (24 August 1839 – 24 April 1891) was a French landscape painter and scenic designer.
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Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (1834–1891) was a painter and scenographer, of French nationality. The painter was born in Nîmes and died in Paris.
Languages used include French. Honours include Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
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Training under Édouard Desplechin is recorded. Benoit Benoni-Auran and Henri Prosper Wirth are recorded as having studied under Jean-Baptiste Lavastre. The recorded working language is French. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
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• Name — Jean-Baptiste Lavastre • Born — 24 August 1839 • Died — 24 April 1891 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Painter, scenic director
Biography
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A student of Édouard Desplechin as soon as 1854 when he was only fifteen (and then his associate from 1864 to 1870), Jean-Baptiste Lavastre eventually took over the workshop with his brother Antoine and Eugène Carpezat. They worked for the Opéra Garnier as well as for the Comédie-Française and the Opéra-Comique in Paris. For the Opéra Le Peletier, he realised the decors, inter alia, for Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas, Don Giovanni, L'Africaine by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The Opéra-Comique, whose ceiling he painted, owes him the setting for Jean de Nivelle and the forest of Lakmé by Léo Delibes, Manon by Jules Massenet and The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach. He is the author, among others, of the ceiling of the théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique. In 1871, he lived at 2 rue des Trois-Frères in Paris.
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• 1869: Les Garrigues, environ de Nîmes; • 1872: Bords de la Méditerranée; • 1873: Une carrière près de Nîmes.
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- André Roussard, Dictionnaire des peintres à Montmartre, Éd. A. Roussard, Paris, 1999, p. 359
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