(b Paris, ?28 May 1833; d Sèvres, nr Paris, 27 Oct 1914). Printmaker, designer, painter and writer. From a humble background, he set out on an artistic career after meeting the painter Joseph Guichard, a pupil of Ingres and Delacroix, who was to be his only teacher. He was brought up by a philanthropist friend of Auguste Comte, Dr Horace de Montègre, whose portrait he drew in pastel in 1860 (Paris, Mus. d’Orsay). Comte’s positivist philosophy was a considerable influence on Bracquemond’s aesthetic ideas. From 1852 he exhibited at the Salon both drawn and painted portraits in the style of Ingres, for example Mme Paul Meurice (Compiègne, Château), but he gave up painting after 1869.

Part of the Bracquemond family

• Bracquemond, Félix(-Auguste-Joseph)
  • Chaplet, Ernest
  • France, §XV, 6: Art education: The Ecole des Beaux-Arts and teaching studios in the 19th century
  • Haviland
  • collaboration
    • Charpentier, Alexandre
    • Corot, Camille, §2: Working methods and technique
    • Deck, Joseph-Théodore
    • Master printers, §III: Specialization and collaboration
  • groups and movements
    • Art Nouveau, §4: France
    • Japonisme, §1: Origins and diffusion
  • patrons and collectors
    • Burty, Philippe
  • pupils
    • Bracquemond: (2) Marie Bracquemond
  • teachers
    • Guichard, Joseph
  • works
    • Cadart, Alfred
    • Dowdeswell, William
    • Drypoint, §2: History
    • Etching, §II, 4: The 19th-century Etching Revival
    • Etching, soft-ground, §2: History
    • France, §VII, 1(ii): Pottery, 1600 and after
    • Gobelins, §2: Tapestry
    • Limoges, §2: Centre of porcelain production
    • Meryon, Charles
    • Paris, §IV, 2(i): Centre of faience production
    • Petit: (2) Georges Petit
    • Somm, Henry