BRACQUEMOND, FELIX (r833-1914), French painter and etcher, was born in Paris on May 22, 1833. He was trained in early youth as a trade lithographer, until Guichard, a pupil of Ingres, took him into his studio. He applied himself to engraving and etching about 1853, and played a leading and brilliant part in the revival of the almost forgotten technique of the etcher's art in France. Altogether he produced over Boo plates, comprising portraits, landscapes, scenes of contemporary life, and bird-studies, besides numerous interpretations of other artists' paintings, espe cially those of Meissonier, Gustave Moreau and Corot. He was connected by a link of firm friendship with Manet, Whistler, and all the other fighters in the impressionist cause.