Henri Carot

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Window on the Cimetière de Passy in Paris with the signature of Henri Carot (bottom left)

Henri Carot ( October 1850 , † 1919 ) was a French glass painter who mainly worked in the Paris region .

education

Henri Carot was born the eleventh of thirteen children of a drawing teacher. His father, Jean Carot, was the head of a municipal painting school in Paris. Henri Carot attended the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris , where he learned the technique of lithography from the painter Aimé Millet . The painter Charles Lebayle became his friend during this time and later inspired him to make glass windows.

After Carot as a soldier in the French German War was used 1870-71, he studied with the famous glass painters Gaspard Gsell and Eugène OUDINET in Paris his craft, where he from 1872 to 1877 during the restoration of the stained glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle in Vincennes was involved .

independence

After Carot drew cardboard boxes for other companies from 1879 to 1888 , such as for the Latteux-Bazin workshop in Picardy , he set up his own workshop in Paris, which was located at 41, Rue Denfert-Rochereau from 1887 to 1895 (in the 14th arrondissement of Paris).

At times, Henri Carot employed seven workers in his workshop. In 1896 he bought a small house at 16, rue Boissonnade (now 7, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris), where he set up his workshop with a glass oven on the ground floor and his apartment above. In the Montparnasse district around 1900, most of the artists and their studios were based, as was a large part of the city's glass painting workshops.

Henri Carot did not belong to the Corporation des artistes peintres veriers de France founded by Claudius Lavergne in 1877 , but had been a member of the Association des artistes peintres veriers de France since 1893 , which mainly counted dependent glass painters in its ranks. Before that, he had already volunteered in the professional association of glass painters, the Société de prévoyance de la peinture sur verre .

Collaboration with Noël Lavergne

From 1894 to 1902, Henri Carot worked closely with the Lavergne company, which gave him orders as a subcontractor . The Lavergne company not only had its own workshop, but also had so many orders across France that Henri Carot received 71 orders during that time. He made windows in chapels and churches e.g. B. in Orville, Magny-le-Désert , Dijon , La Roche-en-Brenil , Magny-en-Vexin and Évian-les-Bains .

family

Henri Carot was married to Caroline Triolet (1852-1936). There were three children from this marriage, two of whom died at an early age. The daughter Jeanne (1876-1958) married a student of Henri Carot, Charles Passet (1869-1903), who worked with his father-in-law. Since Charles Passet died in an accident before Henri Carot, there was no longer a successor. After the death of Henri Carot in 1919, the company was dissolved.

Catalog of works (selection)

Book illustrations

It is worth noting that Henri Carot also illustrated books such as B .:

  • L'Alphabet de l'Enfant-Jesus (Èdition Mame, Tours)
  • Livre d'Heures (Edition Alfred Mame et fils, Tours 1888)
  • La très sainte Bible à l'usage de l'enfance, nouveau testament (Édition Mame, Tours 1890)
  • Missel de la Très-Sainte-Vierge (Édition Sanchez, Paris 1891)
  • En vacances - Comme Georges apprit le dessin (Edition Alfred Mame et fils, Tours 1892)
  • Missel de Jeanne d'Arc (Édition Lelarge, Paris 1894).

literature

  • Laurence de Finance: Un patrimoine de lumière 1830-2000. Verrières des Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne . Éditions du patrimoine (Center des monuments nationaux), Paris 2003, 2-85822-781-0, pp. 297-311.

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personal data
SURNAME Carot, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 1850
DATE OF DEATH 1919