Jean-Baptiste Lavastre
Jean-Baptiste Lavastre was a French landscape painter and scenic designer.Biography
A student of Édouard Desplechin as soon as 1854 when he was only fifteen, Jean-Baptiste Lavastre eventually took over the workshop with his brother Antoine and Eugène Carpezat. They worked for the Opéra Garnier as well as for the Comédie-Française and the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
For the Opéra Le Peletier, he realised the decors, inter alia, for Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas, Don Giovanni, L'Africaine by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The Opéra-Comique, whose ceiling he painted, owes him the setting for Jean de Nivelle and the forest of Lakmé by Léo Delibes, Manon by Jules Massenet and The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach.
He is the author, among others, of the ceiling of the théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique.
In 1871, he lived at 2 in Paris.Salons
