Antoine Bara Blaisot

Place: Paris

Born: 1794

Death: 1876

Biography:

Antoine Bara Blaisot, also known as Antoine Barru Blaisot, was a French engraver, publisher of lithographs and gallery owner. He is known to have operated a gallery selling engravings at 6 rue de Grammont, Paris. Blaisot frequently commissioned artists to created engravings for his Galerie Universelle series, published from 1822 through 1828. He also co-published Pétrarque by Alphonse Rastoul in 1836 and edited Luigi Ceroni's engravings of enamel caricatures created by Jean Petitot from 1862 to 1864. Blaisot was the editor and publisher of the Petit Atlas National des 86 départements de la France et de ses colonies. , published in 1833.