All Octave Tassaert 's Paintings
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Choice ID Image  Paintings (From A to Z)       Details 
11040 An Unhappy Family(or Suicide)  An Unhappy Family(or Suicide)   1849 (Salon of 1850) 3' 9 1/4'' x 2' 6''(115 x 76 cm) UNV 8114 bis
44017 Studio Interior  Studio Interior   1845 Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm
20939 The Artist's Studio (mk05  The Artist's Studio (mk05   1845 Canvas 18 x 15''(46 x 38 cmSalon of 1849;given in 1923;entered the Louvre in 1926 R.F2442 (MN)

Octave Tassaert
Paris 1800-1874 was a French painter of portraits and genre, religious, historical and allegorical paintings, as well as a lithographer and engraver, though this family was of Flemish origin. He was the grandson of the sculptor Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert. Octave's first artistic training came from his father Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert (1765-c. 1835) and his older brother Paul (?-1855), before he was apprenticed to the engraver Alexis-François Girard (1787-1870). Next he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts (1817-25) from 1817 through 1825, under Guillaume Guillon-Lethi??re, but never won the school's Prix de Rome. Winning popular but not critical success, his works showing poor people's lives were felt melodramatic by critics but acclaimed by the public. His submission to the 1855 World Exhibition was well received by the critics, but Octave ceased to exhibit after the 1857 Salon, withdrawing more and more from the formal art world. Collectors of his works included Alfred Bruyas and Alexandre Dumas, fils, but in 1863 Octave stopped painting altogether and tried to become a poet (though none of his works are extant),

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