page_title: Joseph Layraud
section_title: Life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Layraud / Life and career
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Joseph-Fortuné-Séraphin Layraud, Joseph se fait reconnaître par ses frères, 1863, Paris, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
context_page_description: Joseph Fortuné Séraphin Layraud was a French painter. There is no complete clearance as to the birth' and the death' dates. Some sources refer to 1833-1913. His range included historical scenes and figures, religious and mythological subjects, landscapes, and portraits of contemporaries.
context_section_description: Layraud was born at La Roche-sur-le-Buis in south-eastern France. After beginning his training in Marseilles in 1853 he moved to Paris in 1856, studying at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts under Léon Cogniet and Tony Robert-Fleury. He was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1863.
  After his time in Rome, Layraud travelled in Italy and Portugal, painting landscapes, he did some history paintings and many portraits. From 1892 he was a professor at the Académie des beaux-arts in Valenciennes. His pupils included Jules Chaine, Max Albert Decrouez, Grégoire Nicolas Finez, Lucien Hector Jonas, Charles Paris, Maurice Rufin and Alfred Léon Sauvage.
  Layraud exhibited at the Paris Salon,  winning medals in 1872; his work was shown at the 1889 and 1900 Expositions Universelles.
  Layraud was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1890 and was promoted to Officer in 1903. He died 1913 on his birth day, in Valenciennes.
caption: Joseph declaring himself to his brothers
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