Pharamond Blanchard

Pharamond Blanchard studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The recorded working language is French. Work by Pharamond Blanchard is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Auckland Art Gallery, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon and Bibliothèque nationale de France. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Blanchard was born at La Guillotière, a suburb of Lyon, in 1805. He studied under Antoine-Jean Gros, travelled in many distant countries, and went to Mexico with the French expedition of 1858–9. In 1856 he was in Russia, and was present at the coronation of Alexander II. Much of his career was devoted to lithography, and he contributed extensively to L'Illustration. In 1855 he published L'Itinéraire Historique et Descriptif de Paris à Constantinople (12 plates). He died in Paris in 1873.

His principal works include:. • Bull-Hunting. • Puente Colgado of Aranjuez. 1834. • The Smugglers. 1836. • The Disarmament of Vera Cruz. 1840. (At Versailles.) • The Street of El Alari at Tangiers. • San Isidoro Labrador, the Patron Saint of Madrid. • Vasco Nuñez de Balboa discovering the South Sea. (Paris Univ. Exhib. 1855.) • The Valley of Jehoshaphat. (Paris Univ. Exhib. 1855.) • The Arrival of the French at Plan-del-Rio. 1865. • Farm Yard at Chatou. • The Djiguietofka. • An American Glade.

Blanchard, Henri-Léon-Charles-Pharamond-Pierre Blanchard and Henri-Pierre-Leon-Pharamond Blanchard. His recorded language was French. Recognition and collections. Blanchard received Knight of the Legion of Honour.