"Young Girl With A Hoop Painted By Brillaud"
Son of a grocer from Cugand, where he attended primary school, François Brillaud was then the student of Isidore Pils and Jules Breton. In 1877, he exhibited for the first time at the Paris salon with Fileuse from around Nantes, then presented: At the Fall of the Day (1878). He obtained an honorable mention in 1904. ref: Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes a moment of rest. Born September 22, 1847 in Cugand Died September 16, 1916 in Cugand