Charles Landelle

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Charles Zacharie Landelle (born June 2, 1821 in Laval , † December 13, 1908 in Chennevières-sur-Marne ) was a French painter .

In 1825 the family moved to Paris after his father, a caliographer and musician, found a job there as a musician in the Tuileries. Ary Scheffer encouraged him to paint and Charles Landelle enrolled on October 2, 1837 as a student of Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts . He made his exhibition debut in 1841 with self-portraits and religious and historical paintings, which in their soft, sensitive conception were reminiscent of his discoverer Ary Scheffer.

He now also painted religious pictures for the Paris churches of St. Roch (1850), St. Germain l'Auxerrois (1856) and St. Sulpice (1875).

Orientalism

Juive de Tanger in the Musée des Beaux-arts Reims
Ismenia

Landelle is also considered a representative of Orientalism . After traveling to the Middle East and North Africa from 1865 onwards , he developed a specialty in the representation of individual figures, which were, however, characterized more by sentimentality than by ethnographic truth. He traveled to Morocco, Algeria and Egypt and drove up the Nile with the Egyptologist Auguste Mariette . Of the pictures of this kind, the following are particularly popular: The Armenian woman from the Caucasus and The Almeh from Cairo and the Fellah girl , the latter also in Germany through the engraving by R. Stang, have become popular. He has also done numerous decorative paintings, allegories and portraits , his style of painting being smooth and devoid of energy.

The End

Towards the end of his life he drove an art museum project in his hometown Laval, which he inaugurated personally at the side of the French president in 1895. Today there is a natural science museum there.

Charles Landelle died very wealthy in Paris in 1908. He owned several well-equipped villas and a hotel.

Works (selection)

  • Fra Angelico da Fiesole - 1842
  • The holy women walking to the tomb of Christ - 1845
  • The Rest of the Blessed Virgin - 1850
  • The Premonition of the Blessed Virgin - 1859

literature

  • Adolphe Bitard: Dictionnaire de biographie contemporaine française et étrangère , Paris: A. Lévy et Cie., Editeurs, 1887, p. 176, digitized

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personal data
SURNAME Landelle, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landelle, Charles Zacharie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Laval
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1908
Place of death Chennevières-sur-Marne