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Pierre-Nicolas Brisset


Pierre-Nicolas Brisset (18 August 1810, Paris - 29 March 1890, Paris) was a French painter and muralist in the Academic style. He is best known for his mythological, historical and religious scenes, but also painted landscapes and portraits.

His father was a manufacturer of printing presses. At the age of eighteen, he was apprenticed in the workshop of Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder and later studied with François-Édouard Picot. During this time, he also studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. A trip to Italy in 1835 inspired to paint a series of works on historical subjects, monuments and ruins, notably the Ponte Nomentano on the Aniene River.

In 1840, he was awarded the Prix de Rome in painting for his depiction of Gaius Gracchus summoned before the Senate. From 1841 to 1845, he lived at the Villa Medici in Rome. While there, he painted "Saint Lawrence Showing the Treasures of the Church", which enjoyed great success when it was displayed at the Salon and the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

From 1846 to 1853, he assisted Picot in painting frescoes at the Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, one of the largest construction projects during the reign of King Louis Philippe. Over the years, he created several murals of his own at the Church of La Sainte-Trinité and in the Chapel of the Virgin at the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde, as well as at the churches of Saint-Augustin and Saint-Roch.


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