Full Name: Brière, Gaston
Other Names:
- Gaston Brière
Gender: male
Date Born: 1871
Date Died: 1962
Home Country/ies: France
Subject Area(s): eighteenth century (dates CE) and seventeenth century (dates CE)
Career(s): curators
Overview
Curator at the musée de Versailles; gave lessons on the great art collections of the 17th and 18th centuries (in the tradition of Edmond Bonnafé) and at the Ecole du Louvre. His students (though not particularly inspired by him) included Charles Sterling. He was part of a group of scholars centered around Louis-Charles-Léon Courajod, including Paul Vitry, Jean Joseph Marie Anatole Marquet de Vasselot, and Raymond Koechlin.
Sources
Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l’histoire de l’art: de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, p. 474.
Archives
- Brière, Gaston & Brière-Misme, Clotilde (19e siècle – 20e siècle) – fonds, Institut national d’histoire de l’art. https://agorha.inha.fr/inhaprod/ark:/54721/0056487.
Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen