FRENCH PAINTER HENRI GREVEDON (1776-1860) - LITHOGRAPHS

Painter, draughtsman and lithographer, Grevedon entered as student of Jean Baptiste Regnault at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1789 

Grevedon went to Russia where he stayed until 1812, then to Stockholm and to England, returning to France in 1816. Exhibited from 1824 to 1859 in Paris at the Salon.

First, he painted historical pictures and scenes of folk life. For some time he worked in Russia, where,  in 1810 he was admitted to the "appointed" by the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. 

Then he switched almost exclusively to the portrait genre, mainly in the technique of lithography (both on the basis of his own drawings and on the works of other authors). Portraits of Grevedon, especially those of women, were of an exalted and idealized character. As the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedia informs at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Grevedon's lithographs "were in great honor in the 1930s and are still respected by collectors of prints."