Name Pharamond Blanchard | Died 1873, Paris, France | |
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Henri Pierre Léon Pharamond Blanchard (1805–1873) was a French lithographer, and painter of landscapes and historical subjects.
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Life
Blanchard was born at La Guillotière, a suburb of Lyon, in 1805. He studied under Antoine-Jean Gros, travelled in many distant countries, and went to Mexico with the French expedition of 1858–9. In 1856 he was in Russia, and was present at the coronation of Alexander II. Much of his career was devoted to lithography, and he contributed extensively to L'Illustration. In 1855 he published L'Itinéraire Historique et Descriptif de Paris à Constantinople (12 plates).
He died in Paris in 1873.
Works
His principal works include:.
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