Jacques Raymond Brascassat Château De La Caze Oil On Canvas Circa 1840 Lozère Tarn

Jacques Raymond Brascassat (1804-1867)

Chateau de la Caze

Oil on canvas, signature lower right Brascassat
Circa 1840

Canvas: 38 x 46 cm
With frame: 52 x 61 cm

Work related to the Museum of Fine Arts in Reims and two engravings in the departmental archives of Lozère.

Painter born in Bordeaux on August 30, 1804, died in Paris on February 28, 1867. He began his artistic career in Bordeaux, under the direction of Théodore Richard, and won a first prize for drawing, from nature, in the 1822 competition, at the Bordeaux school. Then he came to Paris and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1824, where he was taught by Hersent.

The Château de la Caze is a Renaissance-style castle, located in the Gorges du Tarn, in Lozère.