Pierre Brissaud

Pierre Brissaud (December 23, 1885- 1964) was a French Art Deco illustrator, painter and 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 André Marty, Charles Martin and Georges Lepape. Students at the workshop drew, painted and designed wallpaper, furniture and posters. Earlier, Toulouse-Lautrec, 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.

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