He had originally planned to have a legal career, but followed the advice of his friend,
Diodore Rahoult, a rising local artist, and went to Paris, where he was a pupil of
Léon Cogniet. In 1843, he also enrolled at the
École de Beaux-Arts. He had his first exhibit at the
Salon of 1848. Rahoult introduced him to landscape painting in 1853, and that became his favorite subject after 1870. He was also a pupil of
Jean Achard (whose portrait he painted; now kept in the
Museum of Grenoble) and
François-Auguste Ravier in
Charlieu. The painter,
Eugénie Gruyer-Brielman, was his sister-in-law, by her relationship to his wife, Julie Amélie, née Gruyer. In 1868, he and Rahoult were commissioned to decorate the new . He was member of the artists' colony in
Proveysieux and was associated a while with . His paintings can be seen at the Museum of Grenoble, the
Musée dauphinois and the
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry. His painting
Souvenir de La Grave won an honorable mention at the 1855
Exposition Universelle in Paris, and was noticed by
Maxime Du Camp. ==Sources ==