and official posts. Ill, depressed and desperate, he committed suicide by cutting his throat at his house on the night of 2/3 October 1830; he was 75 years old. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris. Gallery References Gaston Lavalley, Le Peintre Robert Lefèvre, sa vie et son œuvre, Caen, L. Jouan, [s.d.], (c 1920). Mémoires de la Société des sciences, arts et Belles-Lettres de Bayeux, 1901, p. 121-2 Notes External links Robert Jacques Lefèvre in Joconde. 1755 births 1830 deaths People from Bayeux 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Suicides by sharp instrument in France 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists