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François-Auguste Biard

Amazonian Indians Worshiping the Sun God Print by Francois-Auguste Biard

Amazonian Indians Worshiping the Sun God

Street Scene Print by Francois-Auguste Biard

Street Scene

A Laplander Print by Francois-Auguste Biard

A Laplander

Nova Zembla coast Print by Francois-Auguste Biard

Nova Zembla coast

Triumph of a Tenor at a Musical Matinee Print by Francois-Auguste Biard

Triumph of a Tenor at a Musical Matinee

François-Auguste Biard (Lyon, 29 June 1799 – Les Plâtreries, Samois-sur-Seine,[1][2] 20 June 1882) was a French genre painter.

His painting, Scenes on the Coast of Africa, was the inspiration behind Isaac Julien's short film The Attendant (1993). Biard was known as an abolitionist because of the paintings representing the Atlantic slave trade. Yet, historian Ana Lucia Araujo showed that the painter was never an abolitionist[3] His paintings representing the Atlantic slave trade were rather intended to highlight the history of France. He travelled extensively around the world. He was particularly successful in rendering burlesque groups like in Sea Sickness on a British Corvet (Dallas Museum of Art).

In 1858, when his career was in decline, he spent two years in Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro, he enjoyed the protection of the emperor Dom Pedro II. He traveled to the rainforests of Espírito Santo and Amazônia, where he extensively depicted native populations. As Araujo explains, Biard was among the very first European painters to meet and depict these populations. In 1862, after returning in France, Biard published the travelogue Deux Années au Brésil with Hachette.


References

(French) Le cimetière de Samois - Personnes célébres et bienfaiteurs enterrés au cimetière du village
(French) Samois en bordure du massif de Fontainebleau. Les hameaux de Samois

.Araujo, Ana Lucia. Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015).

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Biard, Auguste François". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
External links

Cooper, Thompson (1884). "Biard, Auguste François". Men of the Time (eleventh ed.). London: George Routledge & Sons. pp. 117–118.
Biard, Auguste François, 1798-1882. Deux années au Brésil (collab.: Riou, Edouard, 1833-1900) . Paris : Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1862. (Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin; Universidade de São Paulo).

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