Jean-Joseph Dassy

Training under Anne-Louis Girodet is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Work by Jean-Joseph Dassy is recorded in the collections of Musée de l'Histoire de France, Palace of Versailles, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Cholet and Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille.

Jean-Joseph Dassy was born and died in Marseille. His father was a mason. His younger brother Louis-Toussaint Dassy was destined for the priesthood while his other two younger brothers, Pierre and Hippolyte, helped their father in his marble workshop. Three of his sisters were nuns. Initially a student of Goubaud and Aubert at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, he then went to Paris where, in 1817, he became one of the best students of Girodet-Trioson.

• Illustration — Louis François Perrin, Earl of Précy (1742-1820), General at Vendée, 1827 • Illustration — Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, at the Siege of Antioch, 1850 • Illustration — Caribert, Frankish king of Paris and western Gaul (died in 567), 1837 • Illustration — Louis I the Pious (778-840), Emperor of the West, 1837

• General Précy, 1829, deposit of the National Museum of the Castles of Versailles and Trianon, 1914.

• Combat of Robert, Duke of Normandy, with a Saracen Warrior

• Caribert, Frankish King of Paris and Western Gaul (died in 567) • Louis I the Pious (778-840), Emperor of the West

• Illustration — Martyrdom of St. Lazarus (St. Lazarus Church, Marseille) • Illustration — Apostolate of St. Lazarus (St. Lazarus Church, Marseille) • Illustration — Resurrection of St. Lazarus (St. Lazarus Church, Marseille)