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Pierre Brissaud (December 23, 1885- 1964) was a
France|French Art Deco List of
illustrators|illustrator, painter and
engraving|engraver. He was born in Paris, France
and trained at  the Ecole des Beaux Arts and
Atelier Fernand Cormon in Montmartre, Paris. His
fellow Cormon students were Andre Marty|André
Marty, Charles Martin and Georges Lepape. Students
at the workshop drew, painted and designed
wallpaper, furniture and posters. Earlier, Henri
de Toulouse-Lautrec|Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van
Gogh|Van Gogh, and Henri Matisse had studied and
worked there. His older brother Jacques Brissaud
was a portraitist and genre painter and his uncle
Maurice Boutet illustrated the fables of La
Fontaine. A first cousin was the celebrated artist
and celebrity portraitist Bernard Boutet de
Monvel.

Brissaud is known for his pochoir (stencil) prints
for the fashion magazine Gazette du Bon Ton
published by Lucien Vogel, Paris. Many of his
illustrations are realistic leisure scenes of the
well-to-do. They illustrate the designs of Paris
fashion houses such as Jeanne Lanvin,
Chéruit, Worth, and Doucet. Brissaud's
illustrations appeared in Vogue magazine|Vogue
after it bought Bon Ton in 1925, as well as House
and Garden and Fortune, and in books, for example,
Madame Bovary and Manon Lescaut.

In 1907 he exhibited at the
http://www.artistes-independants.fr Salon des
Artistes Indépendants and the
http://www.salon-automne-paris.com Salon
d'Automne.

==Bibliography==
* Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des
peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs,
Emmanuel Bénézit, Pub, Paris, Gründ, 1999
ISBN 0828856354
* Dizionario della moda by Mariella Azzali, Pub.
Calderini; ISBN 887019471X
* Exposition de peintures... Pierre Brissaud...,
Louis Vauxcelles, pub. Devambez, (art dealers),
Paris, 1909, (N. Y. Pub. Lib.)
* French Fashion Plates in Full Color from the
Gazette du Bon Ton (1912-1925), Lepape et.al., N.
Y., Dover, 1979 ISBN 0486238059
* Les Petits Maitres de la Peinture valeur de
demain 1820-1920 by Gérald Schurr, pub. Les
Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1975
* Pierre Brissaud Jean Dulac, pub. Henri Babou,
1929, Paris, (Getty Mus. Lib. & N. Y. Pub. Lib.)
* Pierre Brissaud: La grande époque, Paris 1909 -
1929, l'art et la mode, Hôtel Drouot
(auction house), Paris.1968 (Getty Mus. Lib.)
* Pochoir Art Déco, Giuliano Ercoli, N.Y.
Rizzoli, 1989, ISBN 0847810380

==External links==
*
http://www.artophile.com/dynamic/Artists/BrissaudP
ierre_ArtDecoandPochoir.htm Pochoir gallery
*http://www.artistes-independants.fr Salon des
Artistes Indépendants
*http://www.salon-automne-paris.com Salon
d'Automne
*http://www.art-deco-prints-and-posters.com Art
Deco prints and posters