Henri Pierre Léon Pharamond Blanchard (1805–1873) was a French lithographer, and painter of landscapes and historical subjects.

Life

Blanchard was born at La Guillotière, a suburb of

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, in 1805. He studied under

Antoine-Jean Gros Antoine-Jean Gros (; 16 March 177125 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was granted the title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the ...

, travelled in many distant countries, and went to Mexico with the French expedition of 1858–9. In 1856 he was in Russia, and was present at the coronation of Alexander II. Much of his career was devoted to

lithography Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the miscibility, immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by ...

, and he contributed extensively to ''

L'Illustration ''L'Illustration'' (; 1843–1944) was a French language, French illustrated weekly newspaper published in Paris. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in ...

''. In 1855 he published ''L'Itinéraire Historique et Descriptif de Paris à Constantinople'' (12 plates). He died in Paris in 1873.

Works

His principal works include:. *''Bull-Hunting''. *'' Puente Colgado of Aranjuez''. 1834. *''The Smugglers''. 1836. *''The Disarmament of Vera Cruz''. 1840. (At

Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines, Yvelines Department of Île-de-France, Île-de-France region in Franc ...

.) *''The Street of El Alari at Tangiers''. *''San Isidoro Labrador, the Patron Saint of Madrid''. *''Vasco Nuñez de Balboa discovering the South Sea''. ( Paris Univ. Exhib. 1855.) *''The Valley of Jehoshaphat''. (Paris Univ. Exhib. 1855.) *''The Arrival of the French at Plan-del-Rio''. 1865. *''Farm Yard at Chatou''. *''The Djiguietofka''. *''An American Glade''.

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* 19th-century French painters French male painters Artists from Lyon 1805 births 1873 deaths Pupils of Antoine-Jean Gros 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub