Pierre Brissaud

Pierre Brissaud was a French Art Deco illustrator, painter, and engraver. He was born in Paris and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and Atelier Fernand Cormon in Montmartre, Paris. His father was Dr. Édouard Brissaud, a student of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot. His fellow students at Cormon were his brother Jacques, André-Édouard Marty, Charles Martin, and Georges Lepape. Students at the workshop drew, painted and designed wallpaper, furniture and posters. Earlier, Toulouse-Lautrec, van Gogh, and Henri Matisse had studied and worked there. Pierre's older brother Jacques Brissaud was a portrait and genre painter and his uncle Maurice Boutet de Monvel illustrated the fables of La Fontaine, songbooks for children and a life of Joan of Arc. A first cousin was the celebrated artist and celebrity portrait painter Bernard Boutet de Monvel. ^{Pierre Brissaud, French illustrator, painter, and engraver (d. 1964)}

23 December 1885

Born on the same birth day (23 December): Bertrand Gachot • Christian Potenza • Edgar P. Rucker • Günther Schifter • Harry Shearer • James Stockdale • Joseph Bodin de Boismortier • Wim Vansevenant

Born in the same month (December 1885): Annie Dale Biddle Andrews • Bazoline Estelle Usher • Deems Taylor • Elizabeth Baker (economist) • Frank Patrick (ice hockey) • George Minot • Leonid Pitamic • Marios Varvoglis • Mason Phelps • Paul Manship • Peter Sturholdt • Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein