Lazare Bruandet (3 July 1755 – 26 March 1804) was a French painter and engraver.
Biography Little is known about his career. He was born in Paris and began as the student of a wash painter named Jean-Philippe Sarrazin (d.1795). His later training, acquired in Germany, inclined him toward traditional, realistic landscapes. Upon returning to France, his style developed by painting outdoors (en plein aire, as it came to be known) in the forests surrounding Paris. He was often accompanied by his fellow landscape painters, Georges Michel and Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, who occasionally created the small figures in his works.Charles Asselineau, Lazare Bruandet, peintre de l'école française, Dumoulin libraire, 1855
In 1787, after coming home from a hunt, King Louis XVI was asked what sort of game he encountered. His response was: "I only met wild boars and Bruandet".André Billy, Les Beaux Jours de Barbizon, Éditions du Pavois, 1947, pg.27 He was, in fact, said to be a difficult, argumentative person, and a staunch supporter of the Revolution.Esquisse d'une collection pour le musée vivant du Paysage français, catalog by the Association des Amis du Paysage français, Presses de BPC, 2004, pg.121
He was married to Catherine Linger and lived at several Paris addresses, until his final years, which were spent at the ; presumably for being penurious. Not long before his death, his uncle is said to have acquired five of his paintings for 500 Francs.
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Le Peintre hors-la-loi (The Outlaw Painter), by Frantz Duchazeau; a graphic novel about an episode in Bruandet's life when he supposedly had to hide from the police to avoid being arrested for killing his mistress. @ Google Books @ Petite histoire, légendes et mystères du Gâtinais (scroll down) More works by Bruandet @ ArtNet