Charlemagne Oscar Guet

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Charlemagne Oscar Guet (born January 24, 1801 in Meaux , † November 29, 1871 in Paris ) was a French genre and portrait painter.

Life

Guët studied from 1818 to 1821 at the École des beaux-arts de Paris . He was a student of Antoine-Jean Gros as well as Louis Hersent and Horace Vernet .

From 1824 to 1845 he went on study trips through France , Holland , Switzerland , Italy , Turkey and Greece . From 1819 Guët exhibited his works in the Salon de Paris and took part in the exhibitions in Leipzig in 1837, 1839 and 1843 and in the Kunstverein Lübeck in 1850, 1852 and 1854. He was awarded 2nd class medals in 1821 and 1822 and a 1st class medal in 1838, and in July 1846 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor . Guet last lived at Place Vendôme No. 26, was married and had children and grandchildren.

literature

John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins: Cyclopedia of painters and paintings . tape 2 : Eakins-Kyhn . Scribner, New York 1886, p. 186 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Guët, Charlemagne Oscar . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 246 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Charlemagne Oscar Guet - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Guët, Charlemagne-Oscar (1801–1871) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
ArtNet Galerie Charlemagne-Oscar Guet (French, 1801–1871).

Individual evidence

^ PL Jacob: Annuaire des artistes et des amateurs . Vve J. Renouard, Paris 1860, p. 59 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Hubert Lavigne: Convoi et enterrement de C.-O. Good, peintre . In: Etat civil d'artistes français; billets d'enterrement ou de deces depuis 1823 jusqu'a nos jours . J. Baur, Paris 1881, p. 106 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Guet, Charlemagne Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 24, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meaux
DATE OF DEATH	November 29, 1871
Place of death	Paris

[1] PL Jacob: Annuaire des artistes et des amateurs . Vve J. Renouard, Paris 1860, p. 59 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Hubert Lavigne: Convoi et enterrement de C.-O. Good, peintre . In: Etat civil d'artistes français; billets d'enterrement ou de deces depuis 1823 jusqu'a nos jours . J. Baur, Paris 1881, p. 106 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).