Jean Béraud
Chronicler of Belle Époque Parisian life
Jean Béraud was a French painter renowned for his numerous paintings depicting the life of Paris, and the nightlife of Paris society. Pictures of the Champs Elysees, cafés, Montmartre and the banks of the Seine are precisely detailed illustrations of everyday Parisian life during the "Belle Époque". He also painted religious subjects in a contemporary setting. Béraud was born in Saint Petersburg. His father (also called Jean) was a sculptor and was likely working on the site of St. Isaac's Cathedral at the time of his son's birth. Béraud's mother was one Geneviève Eugénie Jacquin; following the death of Béraud's father, the family moved to Paris. Béraud was in the process of being educated as a lawyer until the occupation of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. Béraud became a student of Léon Bonnat, and exhibited his paintings at the Salon for the first time in 1872. However, he did not gain recognition until 1876, with his On the Way Back from the Funeral. He exhibited with the Society of French Watercolorists at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris. He painted many scenes of Parisian daily life during the Belle Époque in a style that stands somewhere between the academic art of the Salon and that of the Impressionists. He received the Légion d'honneur in 1894.
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Master student
- Léon Bonnat Master
Artworks by this artist (115 total)
- L’Italienne 1873
- Les berges de la Seine 1880
- Elegante à l’Emeraude 1879
- Scène de rue Parisienne 1897-1898
- La Partie de Billiard
- La Prière 1883
- Sortie des ouvrières de la maison Paquin 1900
- Le boulevard Montmartre, devant le théâtre des Variétés, l’après-midi 1885
- Seaside Café 1884
- Après L’office À L’église De La Sainte Trinité, Noël 1890 1890
- Entrée de l’exposition universelle de 1889 1889
- Le boulevard Saint-Denis à Paris 1899
- La Baignoire, au théâtre des Variétés 1883
- Les joueurs de jacquet backgammon
- Le salon de la comtesse Potocka 1887
- Sur les Champs Élysées 1892
- Champs-Élysées circa 1880
- Les coulisses de l’Opéra de Paris 1889
- Couple devant une bijouterie
- Le boulevard Montmartre, la nuit, devant le théâtre des Variétés 1885