Emile Lassale ( 1813 - 1870)

Lassalle, was born on 30 December 1813 in Bordeaux and died on 2 February 1871 (at 57) in Paris, and was a French painter and lithographer. He was a student of Pierre Lacour and frequently exhibited at the Salon, between 1834 and 1869, lithographs of scenes of genres, portraits and paintings by masters. He obtained a third-class medal in 1847 and a first-class medal in 1848, followed by reminders in 1857, 1859 and 1861. In 1851 he was a publisher at 38 rue de la Tour d’Auvergne in Paris.  He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1861.