His submission to the 1855 World Exhibition was well received by the critics, but Octave ceased to exhibit after the 1857 Salon, withdrawing more and more from the formal art world. Winning popular but not critical success, his works showing poor people's lives were felt melodramatic by critics but acclaimed by the public. Next he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts (1817-25) from 1817 through 1825, under Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, but never won the school's Prix de Rome. 1835) and his older brother Paul (?-1855), before he was apprenticed to the engraver Alexis-François Girard (1787-1870). Octave's first artistic training came from his father Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert (1765-c.
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