Alfred-Henri Bramtot

Alfred-Henri Bramtot
Alfred-Henri Bramtot
	Alfred-Henri Bramtot, carte de visite;; (circa 1890).
Born	1852; Paris
Died	16 June 1894; Garennes-sur-Eure

Alfred-Henri Bramtot (1852, Paris – 16 June 1894) was a 19th-century French painter.

Biography

A student at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in William Bouguereau's atelier, Alfred-Henri Bramtot won the Prix de Rome for painting in 1879 with La Mort de Démosthène. After his stay in Rome at Villa Medicis, he began a career as a painter and decorator. After competing unsuccessfully for the scenery of the town hall of Arcueil, he participated in the decoration of the council chamber of the town hall of Les Lilas in 1889 on the theme of the universal suffrage (See here Archived 2017-08-06 at the Wayback Machine) In 1893, he provided the cartoon to glassmaker master Félix Gaudin for the St. Catherine stained glass due to adorn one of the windows of the Sainte-Catherine church in Lille. He regularly exhibited at the Salon: he obtained a third class medal in 1876 and was out of competition after 1885. During the 1890s, he was also a professor at the Académie Julian.^[1]

On 24 April 1886, The New York Times informed its readers of his picture Les Amis de Job exhibited at the Salon .^[2]

With Georges Duval (died in 1915), he was the author of many drawings intended for paper currency emissions for the French colonies. He was master of drawing at the École polytechnique.^[3]

His Parisian studio was located at 3 rue Joseph-Bara [fr] in the 6th arrondissement.

List of paintings

(partial list)

Title	Date	Size	Location
Saint Sébastien	1875		Current location unknown (formerly at the city hall of Clermont-Ferrand)
Aristée	1876		Location unknown
Figure peinte	1877	81 x 65 cm	Paris, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Le Massacre des Innocents	1878
La Mort de Démosthène	1879	145 x 113 cm	Paris, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Le Sabbat	1880
Le Supplice d'Ixion	1881	238 x 160 cm	Nîmes, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Compassion	1882	257,4 x 174,7 cm	Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery
Héliodore (copy after Raphael)	1883		Paris, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Le Départ de Tobie	1885	240 x 390 cm	Bourges, musée du Berry
Les Amis de Job	1886		Location unknown
Le panier d'oranges	1886	51,5 x 40,3 cm	Private collection
Léda	1888	136 x 220 cm	Location unknown (formerly in Paris, Institut de France)
Les Fiancés. Les grands-parents	1888	45,5 x 135 cm	Paris, Petit Palais
La Famille. Le repas de midi	1888	45 x 75 cm	Paris, Petit Palais
Le Suffrage universel, esquisse pour la mairie des Lilas	1889	34,5 x 52 cm	Paris, Petit Palais
Le Suffrage universel	1890–1891		Les Lilas, mairie
Portrait de monsieur Ducros Aubert	1890	67 x 53 cm	Marseille, musée des beaux-arts
Ruth et Noémie	1890		Location unknown
Scène biblique. Le départ de Tobie	1890	96,5 x 149,9 cm	Location unknown
La Pêche galante	1892	75,5 x 101 cm	Private collection
La Préparation du repas		73 x 54 cm	Private collection
Vénus et l'Amour		143 x 99 cm	Private collection
Portrait d'une jeune italienne		21 x 14 cm	Private collection
Le petit Saint Jean-Baptiste		30x 24 cm	Private collection
Rêve de Marie			Mulhouse, Musée des Beaux-Arts