page_title: Félix Bracquemond
section_title: Friend of the Impressionists
hierarchical_section_title: Félix Bracquemond / Biography / Friend of the Impressionists
caption_attribution_description: Print; Prints
context_page_description: Félix Henri Bracquemond was a French painter and etcher. He played a key role in the revival of printmaking, encouraging artists such as Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissaro to use this technique.
  Unusually for a prominent artist of this period, he also designed pottery for a number of French factories, in an innovative style that marks the beginning of Japonisme in France.
  He was the husband of the Impressionist painter Marie Bracquemond.
context_section_description: In 1874 Bracquemond participated in the first exhibition of impressionist painters in the workshops of Nadar, Boulevard des Capucines, of artists that would be called the Impressionists. The inauguration took place on 15 April 1874 and enjoyed a scandalous success. He presented a portrait, a frame of etchings including the portraits of Auguste Comte, Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier, but also etchings after Turner, Ingres, Manet, and original etchings: Les Saules (The Willows), Le Mur (The Wall). He exhibited again with his friends in 1879.
caption: Colour lithograph, Landscape, after 1885
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