biography
pronunciation:
[brakmõ]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1833–1914)
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| biography:
| French painter and engraver, the husband of Marie Bracquemond. He studied under Guichard and exhibited with the Impressionists in 1874, 1879, and 1880. In 1871 he was appointed director at the Sèvres porcelain factory, and later at the Haviland factory in Limoges. He was an outstanding and innovative engraver who published Du Dessin et de la Couleur (1886) on this art-form. A friend of the Impressionists, he taught Manet the techniques of lithography and etching. |
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