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French painter (1813–1880)

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Auguste Charpentier
BornAuguste 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

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.

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.

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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