Jacques onfray de breville biography

French artist and illustrator

Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville, known by the pen name Job after his initials (25 November 1858, Bar-le-Duc – 15 September 1931, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French artist and illustrator.

Jacques-Marie-Gaston Onfroy de Breville was born in Bar-le-Duc on 25 November He attended College Stanislas, a private Catholic school.

Life

His father opposed his entry to thé École des beaux-arts after graduating from the Collège Stanislas. He therefore joined the French army, but returned to Paris in 1882. In the intervening period, he maintained a keen taste for military, patriotic and nationalistic subjects.

He finally joined the École des beaux-arts and exhibited at the 1886 'Salon des artistes français', receiving a mixed reception.

Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville, known by the pen name Job after his initials was a French artist and illustrator.

He also illustrated the life of George Washington and was well known in the United States.

Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville, known by the pen name Job after his initials (25 November , Bar-le-Duc – 15 September , Neuilly-sur-Seine).

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He therefore began a career as an illustrator, contributing caricatures to La Caricature and to La Lune.

However, he is best known for his illustrations for children's books, most frequently for texts by Georges Montorgueil.

His major colour compositions contributed to the cult of 'heroes of the nation' such as Napoleon I a