Théodore Ravanat

Théodore Ravanat (born in Grenoble on 4 May 1812, died in Proveysieux on 21 September 1883) was a French landscape painter.

He was friend with Ernest Hébert, sculptor Victor Sappey, and the most of painters who attended the École dauphinoise.

He began exhibiting his painting Souvenir de Vienne in 1832 in Grenoble, then he continued to show his works the next years.

He was appointed assistant of the Musée de Grenoble, Professor, then Director of the municipal school of drawing.

Ravanat was the subject of a painting by Eugène Faure[1] and a medal by Victor Sappey.