Pierre Jacques FEILLET (French, 1794 - 1855)

Pierre Jacques FEILLET, born December 16, 1794 in Imeray and died December 16, 1855 in Biarritz, is a French painter and lithographer. He studies art in Paris from his father-in-law PERNOTIN and Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON (1767-1824) before joining the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1817. He participates, with his teacher PERNOTIN, in the restoration of the painted ceilings of Versailles. A patented lithographer from 1823 to 1828, he is the author of the Jules Cloquet Anatomy Manual illustrations and in 1826 he published the Costumes of the main characters in the play "Les Scandinaves". In the early 1830s, he stayed in Madrid to lithograph paintings of the Prado Museum. Settled in Bayonne from 1834, he headmastered from 1844 to 1855 the School of Drawing and Painting of the city. Pierre Jacques FEILLET died in Biarritz on October 30, 1855. He is the father of Hélène FEILLET and Blanche FEILLET, both artists and lithographers and Léon FEILLET teacher.