Theodore Ravanat is a painter French landscape designer, born with Grenoble on May 4th, 1812 and died in Proveysieux on September 21st, 1883.

It is Jean Achard which gave him its first artistic councils. It also counts among his friends Ernest Hébert, the majority of the painters of the school from the Dauphine, but also the sculptor Victor Sappey.

Assistant conservative of the Museum of Grenoble and professor at the school of painting, it invites pupils and friends in his barn workshop which it bought in Proveysieux. One uses sometimes the term of school of Proveyzieux to appoint these Grenoble-native painters meeting at Ravanat or with the inn of the village, the majority followers like Ravanat of the school of the modern landscape.

Its work

The work of Ravanat is primarily made up of landscapes from the Dauphine. The tables of Ravanat are primarily in the Grenoble-native particular collections, but some of these tables are preserved at the Musée of Grenoble or the Musée From the Dauphine.

References

• Maurice Wantellet, Two centuries and more painting from the Dauphine , published by the author.

External bond

• works of Ravanat on the basis Mona Lisa

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