Charles Huot

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Charles Huot (around 1900)

Charles-Édouard Huot (born March 26 or April 6, 1855 in Québec , † January 27 or January 30, 1930 in Sillery ) was a Canadian painter and illustrator.

Live and act

Huot was a son of the businessman Charles Huot and his wife Aurélie Drolet.

He attended the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la Pocatière in Laval and received his first artistic lessons there. With the support of his teachers, Huot went to Paris in 1874 and became a student of Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts (EBA) .

He soon found his own style and as a schoolboy he was able to take part in several important exhibitions. He experienced his economic breakthrough in 1878 when President Patrice de Mac-Mahon had his oil painting Le bon Samaritain bought for the state.

In Belitz , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Huot married Wilhelmine Luise Schlaechter (1849–1907) on August 15, 1885 and had their daughter Alice (1887–1966) with her. Soon after the marriage, Huot gave up his apartment and studio and went back to Canada with his wife.

His first major commission there was in 1887 to design the church of St. Saveur de Québec . The order soon followed to create two works for Parliament .

Charles Huot died in his home in Sillery between January 27 and 30, 1930 and was buried in the Saint Michel de Sillery Cemetery .

L'éplucheuse de patate

Works (selection)

Oil painting
  • Le bon samaritain .
  • Le Laurier .
  • Labor d'autonome .
  • L'éplucheuse de patate .
  • Le sanctus à la maison .
Illustrations
  • Ulic Barthe: Similia Similibus ou la guerre au Canada. Essai romantique sur un sujet d'actualité . Telegraph publisher, Québec 1916.
  • Victor Hugo : L'art d'être grand-père . Lévy, Paris 1879.
  • Gustave Le Bon : The medieval world of the Arabs ("La civilization des Arabes"). Herbig, Munich 1974.
  • Pamphile Le May: Contes vrais . Quebec 1900.

literature

  • Henri Beaude: Chez un peintre . Self-published, Québec 1900.
  • Émmanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, vol. 7 . New edition Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3017-6 .
  • Jean-René Ostiguy: Charles Huot (Canadian Artists Series; Vol. 7). National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 1985, ISBN 0-88884-370-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sillery is now a district of the Sainte-Foy-Sillery-Cap-Rouge arrondissement of the city of Québec.
  2. ^ Conseil souverain and Débat sur les langues .
personal data
SURNAME Huot, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huot, Charles-Édouard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1855 or April 6, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Quebec
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1930 or January 30, 1930
Place of death Sillery