Horace de Callias

An elegant evening party

Horace de Callias (born September 8, 1847 in Paris ; † March 5, 1921 there ) was a French genre and nude painter .

Callias studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris and with Alexandre Cabanel . He showed his works from 1870 to 1891 at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français and later at the Salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts .

He painted genre pictures from Parisian life as well as mostly mythological female nudes.

literature

Robert Corwegh : Callias, Horace de . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 404 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

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personal data
SURNAME	Callias, Horace de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French genre and nude painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 8, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	March 5, 1921
Place of death	Paris