Collection: Jean Béraud

Jean Béraud (12 January 1849 – 4 October 1935) was a French painter renowned for his numerous paintings of life in Paris and especially its nightlife. His works depicting the Champs Elysees, cafés, Montmartre and the banks of the Seine are precisely detailed illustrations of everyday Parisian life during the Belle Époque. He also painted religious subjects in a contemporary setting.

He studied under Léon Bonnat. Among his canonical works are La Pâtisserie Gloppe. He worked primarily in portrait. The work sits within the Realism tradition, specifically the Academic Art current.