Henri Serrur
Henri Auguste Calixte César Serrur , also known as Calixte Serrur (born February 8, 1794 in Lambersart , † September 2, 1865 in Paris ) was a French history, portrait and genre painter.
Life
Serrur initially studied in Lille and was given the opportunity to continue his artistic training in Paris. He was a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault and entered the École royale des beaux-arts . From 1819 he had exhibited several times in the Salon de Paris and received several awards. The themes and style are attributed to classicism painting .
He created several large format pictures with life-size figures. He also received orders to make copies of other painters for the Historical Museum in Versailles. For the Papal Palace in Avignon , he created portraits of the popes who formerly resided there.
Pictures can be found in the museums of Amiens, Bordeaux, Bourges, Cambrai, Douai, Lille, Rennes and Versailles. After his death, the auction house Hôtel Drouot organized an estate sale in 1866 with 64 work numbers and a biographical text by Simon Horsin-Déon .
Works (selection)
- La Mort de Mazet ( Musée de Cambrai )
- Ajax ( Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille )
- Bataille sous le murs de Nicée (Crusader Halls in the Château de Versailles )
- A gallery with the portraits of nine Popes from 1839/40 ( Papal Palace Avignon )
Picture gallery
La mort d'Ajax (Death of Ajax ), 1820, Palais des beaux-arts de Lille
Mort d'un soldat grec à la mort de Tripolitza en 1820 , 1825, Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai
Louise Marguerite de Lorraine , copy 1840, presumably after Corneille de Lyon
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- Pope portraits
Clement VII (antipope)
literature
- Serrur, Henri Auguste César . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 525 .
- Serrur, Henry Auguste César. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers. EA Fleischmann, Munich 1846, volume 16, p. 290 ( uni-weimar.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bénézit or Verly also name February 9, the day on which the birth certificate was made, as the birthday, Bénézit (1924) uncertainly as February 9 or 11.
- ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon…. Volume 16, p. 290.
- ↑ Catalog des tableaux, esquisses, études… laissés par Serrur,…: vente… 15 and 16 Janvier 1866. (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Serrur, Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Serrur, Henri Auguste Calixte César (full name); Serrur, Calixte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lambersart |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 1865 |
| Place of death | Paris |