Jean-Baptiste Jules Trayer


Jean-Baptiste Jules Trayer was born in Paris in 1824 and died in 1909. He was a French painter. He signed his works "Jules Trayer".

Biography

He was taught by his father who was a landscape painter and by Justin Lequien at the Académie Suisse in Paris. He specialized as a "genre" painter, particularly depicting scenes in Brittany. Trayer was a regular exhibitor at the Paris Salon from 1847 onwards and was awarded third class medals at the Paris Salons of 1853 and 1855.

Works exhibited at the Paris Salon

Trayor executed a lithograph depicting a portrait of Charles Lagrange the politician. This lithograph can be seen in the Musée national du château de Compiègne.

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