Émile Bayard

Émile -Antoine Bayard ( born November 2, 1837 in La Ferté -sous -Jouarre, † December 6, 1891 in Cairo ) was a French illustrator.

Émile -Antoine Bayard studied 1853-1857 at the Ecole des Beaux -Arts under the famous painter Léon Cogniet. Besides his studies he published under the pseudonym Abel de Miray comical drawings in various journals. Later Bayard worked mainly on charcoal and watercolor drawings and achieved initial success with woodcuts. Beginning of the 1860s he worked primarily for magazines Journal des Voyages, Les Bibliothèque des Merveilles, Journal pour rire and L' Immortel. From the documentary drawings and lithographs, in which he particularly holds the events of the Franco-German War, include the charcoal drawing Sedan of 1870, the 1873 Salon de Paris exhibited Portrait Commandant Franchetti and in 1874 by the French government purchased Triptych Gloria Victis après la bataille de Waterloo and highlight. With the opposite end of the 19th century and the growing influence of photography, Bayard documentary drawings are gradually pushed out of the newspapers and magazines, so that it is almost as an illustrator, among other things, of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's hut, Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and Alphonse Daudet's L' Immortel; and worked in the customs painting.