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Brascassat, Jacques-Raymond
(b Bordeaux, 30 Aug 1804; d Paris, 28 Feb 1867). French painter. He began his artistic career in Bordeaux at the age of 14 with the landscape painter Théodore Richard (1782–1859) and showed an early interest in drawing animals. By 1825 he was studying under Louis Hersent at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was sent to Italy the following year, despite coming only second in the Prix de Rome with Hunt of Meleager (Bordeaux, Mus. B.-A.). In Rome Brascassat met Théodore-Caruelle d’Aligny, with whom he spent most of his first year sketching in the surrounding countryside, producing such masterly works as View of Marino, Morning (Orléans, Mus. B.-A.). The history paintings he sent back to Paris, however, met with little success. Returning to Paris in 1830, he rejoined d’Aligny at Barbizon in 1831 and exhibited six landscapes of the area at the Paris Salon.
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