Claude Charles
Claude Charles (6 January 1661, Nancy – 4 June 1747, Nancy) was a French historical and decorative painter. He also served as a Herald-at-Arms.
Life and work
He was the son of Jean Charles, an attorney for the local bailiwick and a notary. His first art lessons were in Épinal with Jean-George Gérard (1642-1690); a painter of religious scenes.[1]
At the age of only sixteen, he went to Rome. There, he spent nine years working with
He returned to Nancy in 1688. Two years later, he married Anne Racle, from a family of goldsmiths and engravers.[2]
In 1702, he was named the first Director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Nancy. The following year, he became the Herald and court painter to Leopold, Duke of Lorraine.[2] His notable students included Jean-Charles François, Jean Girardet; Claude Jacquart and Joseph Gilles .
He practiced a mixture of
Selected works
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Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Hautvillers
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Saint Peter Healing the Paralytic,
Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Hautvillers, -
Saint Peter,
Toul Cathedral
References
- ISBN 978-2-9529107-0-5
- ^ a b c Biographical notes from the Histoire Lorraine @ the Lorraine Café (scroll down).
- ISBN 978-2-87009-886-8
- ^ Works by Claude Charles @ the Ministère de la Culture
External links
- Michael Bryan, « CHARLES, Claude » in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, 1886–1889, p.265 (Online)