Gabriel Tyr

Despite his financially modest background, he was able to enroll at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Lyon in 1833, at the age of sixteen.

Following the February Revolution, he received an order from Charles Blanc, Director of the department for the Visual Arts at the Ministry of the Interior.

He was then called to Lyon to complete a painting at the Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière that had been left unfinished by the death of his teacher, Orsel.

He also worked in Saint-Étienne and Puy-en-Velay, leaving the area occasionally to participate in exhibits; notably the Exposition Universelle of 1855.

[4] In addition to painting, he designed the stained glass windows at the Église de Saint-Louis in Saint-Étienne.