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Joachim Lebreton
Joachim Lebreton (Saint-Méen-le-Grand, France, 1760 – Rio de Janeiro, 1819) was a French professor, public administrator and legislator.
Biography.
Lebreton began his career as professor of Rhetoric at the Collège de Tulle.
He was appointed administrator of Fine Arts of the Ministry of Interior during the French Revolution, at the time of the French Directory. Then, he took part in the 18 Brumaire coup, becoming member of the Revolutionary in the year VIII of the
He was a pupil of Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers, who was in turn a pupil of Pierre Alexandre Tardieu (1756-1844).
He was to become one of the most distinguished engravers of his day.
He became a member of the Drawing Committee of the "Société des Arts" in 1812, but was not active in it since he usually lived in Geneva.
Pradier was a member of the "Missão Artística Francesa" organized by Joachim Lebreton which brought a number of artists to Brazil, arriving