Rating and value of works, drawings, paintings by Lazare Bruandet

In the midst of the French Revolution, Lazare Bruandet (1755-1804) led his own pictorial revolution, overturning society's artistic codes. In exile after the murder of his wife, this outlaw painter fled society, convinced that he possessed a beautiful ideal and a sure taste.

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Rating and value of the artist

Popular during his lifetime, Lazare Bruandet made his mark on the art market as early as the 18th century. Today, the artist's value is high and stable, despite his limited presence on the market. Highly prized by lovers of landscape painting, some of his works can fetch tens of thousands of euros at auction. His painting Paysage animé de bergers et leur troupeau was sold for over €12,000 in 1989.

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A "revolutionary"

Lazare Bruandet was born in Paris in 1755. He learned painting from Jean-Philippe Sarrazin.

He had a strong temperament and very uncertain moods. He took an active part in the French Revolution from its very beginnings.

At the turn of the 19th century, Bruandet played an active role in the emergence of a new landscape style outside institutional frameworks. Having been trained by the German master Rœser, he was influenced by the Nordic realist landscape tradition. Later, he adopted a practice of plein-air painting in the forests surrounding Paris, in the company of landscape artists Georges Michel and Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines. These experiences prefigured the emergence of artists active in Barbizon from 1822.

After killing his wife, whom he suspected of infidelity, Bruandet lived in hiding for several years in the ruins of a monastery in the Fontainebleau forest. This was a prolific period for his art. The artist thus fled society, which he found decadent and unsuited to him, his personality and his art.  

A few years after his exile, Bruandet remarried and was exhibited in numerous salons.  

Works and style

Famous for his landscapes, Lazare Bruandet's style was inspired by the Dutch Golden Age. The artist used a pictorial technique that enabled him to conjure up animated figures. Fans of landscape paintings seek out Bruandet for his unique style.

His signature

Not all of Lazare Bruandet's works are signed.

Although there are variations, here's a first example of his signature :

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