Gaspard-Jean Lacroix’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro French painter
A.K.A. Gaspard Lacroix, Gaspard Jean Lacroix
Was Painter 
From France 
Type Arts 
Gender male
Birth 24 January 1810, Turin, Province of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Death 26 October 1878, Paris, Île-de-France, France
(aged 68 years)

Gaspard-Jean Lacroix, né vers 1810 à Turin, mort à Paris le 26 octobre 1878, est un peintre français.

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Jeunesse et années de formation

Gaspard-Jean Lacroix est né vers 1810 à Turin, de parents français. Clémentine Giraud est son épouse.

Élève de Jean-Baptiste Corot, Gaspard-Jean Lacroix débute au Salon de 1834 en exposant une Vue prise à Aulnay. Il expose au Salon jusqu’à sa mort en 1878 des paysages d’Auvergne, des Pyrénées-Orientales, du Lyonnais, du Dauphiné et de Provence, fruit d’un voyage avec Corot. En dehors de ces voyages dans le sud de la France, ce sont les paysages des environs de Paris qui l’inspirent. Il peint les rives de la Marne, la forêt de Fontainebleau et le parc de la villa Gigoux à Palaiseau.

Après un voyage dans son pays natal, l’Italie, il envoie une vue des environs de Rome au Salon de 1841.

Notes et références

  • Portail de la peinture
  • Portail de la France
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