Auguste Charpentier
Born
Auguste Charpentier

1813
Paris, France
Died1880 (aged 6667)
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.[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.

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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