Auguste Charpentier

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]

Auguste Charpentier
Born
Auguste Charpentier

1813
Paris, France
Died1880 (aged 66–67)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, François Gérard, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Known forPainting, engraving, drawing

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
  1. 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.


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