Jean-Baptiste Debret

Jean -Baptiste Debret ( born April 18, 1768 in Paris, † June 28, 1848 ) was a French painter who was known for his lithographs of the people of Brazil.

Debret studied at the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris, where he was a student of Jacques -Louis David. His first artistic success was the second prize at the Salon des Beaux-Arts in 1798.

He came in March 1816 for the first time to Brazil as a member of Missão Artística Francesa ( French Art Mission ). There he was in Rio de Janeiro, an art and craft school ( Escola Real de Artes e Ofícios ) under the auspices of King John VI. build and the Marquis of MARIALVA. The school was then charged under Emperor Peter I the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts ( Academia de Belas Artes imperial ).

As from the imperial court in Rio preferred painter Debret frequently was asked to portray their members. He taught in December 1822 his studio at the Imperial Academy, where he was a valued teacher. In 1829 organized the first art exhibition in Brazil, where he exhibited many of his works and those of his students.

Debret developed quite quickly an interest in ethnography and began to draw scenes with customs and social relations of the Brazilians in the period 1816-1831. He was particularly interested in the slaves.

Debret 1831 returned back to France, where he became a member of the Academy of Fine Arts. From 1834 to 1839 published his monumental series of 3 volumes with engravings, under the title "Voyage au Brésil pictoresque et historique, ou d'un Séjour au Brésil Artiste Français " ( A picturesque and historic trip to Brazil, or the residence of a French artist in Brazil).

Together with the works of the German painter Moritz Rugendas are Debret work an important graphic document about life in Brazil during the first half of the 19th century.

Gallery

Indian Warrior

Players from Uruncungo

Pelourinho

Coronation of Emperor Piedro I of Brazil

Weblink

  • Un Artiste Français de Brésil. A biography with many reproductions of Debret 's paintings of Francisco Weffort ( in Portuguese and French)
  • Facsimile of 3 books
  • French Painter
  • Painter of classicism
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1768
  • Died in 1848
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