Félix Bracquemond was a French painter. He plays an essential role in the renewal of the art of engraving encouraged by Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissaro to use this technique.
Bracquemond's pictorial work is very small and mainly includes portraits: that of Horace de Montègre (founder of positivism with Émile Littré et Auguste Comte), of Paul Meurice and Auguste Vacquerie. But, as mentioned, painting interests him less than engraving and he bases most of his technical knowledge on the Encyclopédie and works for a long time as a self-taught person.
Félix Bracquemond produced countless engravings including portraits, landscapes, scenes of everyday life, birds and also numerous reproductions of works of art by other artists, especially for Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Gustave Moreau and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.
