A student of
Édouard Desplechin as soon as 1854 when he was only fifteen (and then his associate from 1864 to 1870), Jean-Baptiste Lavastre eventually took over the workshop with his brother Antoine and
Eugène Carpezat. They worked for the
Opéra Garnier as well as for the
Comédie-Française and the
Opéra-Comique in Paris. For the
Opéra Le Peletier, he realised the decors, inter alia, for
Hamlet by
Ambroise Thomas,
Don Giovanni, ''
L'Africaine by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The Opéra-Comique, whose ceiling he painted, owes him the setting for Jean de Nivelle and the forest of Lakmé by Léo Delibes, Manon by Jules Massenet and The Tales of Hoffmann'' by
Jacques Offenbach. He is the author, among others, of the ceiling of the
théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique. In 1871, he lived at 2 in Paris. == Salons ==