Retrato de senhora

Of French origin, Barandier was born in 1807 and began his artistic studies with Pierre-Emmanuel Moreau, then professor and director of the École de Peinture de Chambéry. He made several courses and exhibited in different European cities until arriving in Brazil in 1838, where his works were much appreciated by the local nobility and allowed him to constantly attend the Imperial Palace. His participation in the General Exhibition of Fine Arts of the Imperial Academy made him to be honored with the award of Knight of the Rose's Order, granted by the Empire. His proximity to the court allowed him to portray Dom Pedro I before moving to Campinas, where he would create a series of biblical pictures for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Campinas. He traveled to Europe in search of inspiration, hiring as a helper the future painter Pedro Alexandrino (11 years old at the time) and finalized the order in 1867. The skilled portrait painter worshiped by the Imperial family dies 10 years later, in 1877.