Évremond de Bérard

That same year, he began a three-year trip that took him to Réunion, Mauritius, India, the Comoro Islands, Madagascar, Senegal and, ultimately, Brazil.

He also completed full-length portraits of Jean-Baptiste Jourdan and Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, for the prefecture building of Haute-Vienne, in Limoges.

In 1858, he created lithographs, after works by the painter, Nélie Jacquemart, that appeared in L'Illustration[1] He was elected a member of the Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation [fr] in 1859.

The Empress Eugénie invited him to attend the inauguration of the Suez Canal in 1869; which provided him with the opportunity to create numerous drawings and paintings of Egypt.

In the following three years, he painted four wall panels in the Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology at the French National Museum of Natural History.