French painter (1813–1880)
Auguste Charpentier (1813–1880) was a French painter. He attained fame under the Second French Empire as a portraitist for numerous celebrities of the time such as George Sand, Mademoiselle Rachel, Narcisse Diaz de la Pena, Alexandre Dumas, and Marie Delaporte.[1]
Partial list of works
Portrait de Lottin de Laval (1840), Musée des beaux-arts de Bernay.Portrait de George Sand (1838), Paris, musée de la vie romantique.- Musée des beaux-arts de Caen : Pâtre italien (lost work), oil on canvas
- Musée des beaux-arts de Caen : Courtisane, oil on canvas
- Musée des beaux-arts de Dole : Portrait de Joseph Lyard, oil on canvas
- Grand'Combe-Châteleu, Saint-Joseph Church : Sainte-Madeleine, oil on canvas
- Paris, Saint-Roch Church, ten paintings classified as historical monuments:
- Les Funérailles, 1833, oil on canvas
- La Résurrection, oil on canvas
- Les Saintes Femmes au sépulcre, oil on canvas
- La Loi divine, oil on canvas
- L'Innocence, oil on canvas
- L'Extrême-onction, oil on canvas
- La Force, oil on canvas
- La Sagesse, oil on canvas
- La Charité, oil on canvas
- La Religion, oil on canvas
- Paris, musée de la vie romantique : Portrait de George Sand, 1838, George Sand et ses amis à Nohan
- Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen : Portrait de Bocage, artiste dramatique, before 1862,
- Musée de Vendôme : Portrait de Charles Mansui
- Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon : Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (1808–1878), 1849, oil on canvas
- Musée des beaux-arts de Bernay, Portrait de Pierre-Victorien Lottin de Laval, oil on canvas
References
- ^ Fuller, Margaret (2001). My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller. Cornell University Press. p. 244.
Further reading
- Gérald Schurr, Les Petits Maîtres de la peinture 1820–1920, tome 4, Paris, Éditions de l'Amateur, 1979, pp. 20–25.
