Frelaut Jean

Jean Frélaut was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator who was born in Grenoble in 1879 and died in Vannes in 1954. At the age of 18, he went to Paris in 1897, where he worked in the studio of Fernand Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1903 onward, he learned the technique of engraving from Marcel Beltrand and Donald Shaw MacLaughlan. In 1934, he received the French Engraving Prize at the Venice Biennale. (BT)