About Louis Le Breton
Lived 1818 – 1866 (aged 47–48). Louis Le Breton was a French painter, printmaker, lithographer, surgeon and watercolorist.
Louis Le Breton (15 January 1818 – 30 August 1866) was a French painter who specialised in marine art.
Le Breton studied medicine and took part in Dumont d'Urville's second voyage aboard the Astrolabe. After the official illustrator of the expedition died, Le Breton replaced him.
From 1847 he devoted himself mainly to depicting marine subjects for the French Navy.
Occult Louis Le Breton executed 69 illustrations of occult demons, for the 1863 edition of Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy.
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Who was Louis Le Breton?
French painter (1818–1866)
When was Louis Le Breton born?
Louis Le Breton was born in 1818 in Douarnenez.
When did Louis Le Breton die?
Louis Le Breton died in 1866 in Douarnenez, Paris.
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Louis Le Breton was a painter, printmaker, lithographer, surgeon and watercolorist.
What nationality was Louis Le Breton?
Louis Le Breton was French.
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