Lazare Bruandet

He began as the student of a wash painter named Jean-Philippe Sarrazin (d.1795).

Upon returning to France, his style developed by painting outdoors (en plein aire, as it came to be known) in the forests surrounding Paris.

He was often accompanied by his fellow landscape painters, Georges Michel and Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, who occasionally created the small figures in his works.

[1] In 1787, after coming home from a hunt, King Louis XVI was asked what sort of game he encountered.

[3] He was married to Catherine Linger and lived at several Paris addresses, until his final years, which were spent at the Saint-Honoré Cloister [fr]; presumably for being penurious.