Louis Chalon

Louis Chalon (born January 15, 1866 in Paris , France , † 1916 ) was a French painter , illustrator , goldsmith and silversmith and sculptor .

Life

Chalon studied with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Boulanger. He showed his classically inspired paintings at the salons of the Société des Artistes Français in Paris from 1880 to 1911. In 1885 and 1898 he was honored with a mention honorable ; In 1891 he received a third class medal. Chalon worked for the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) Arthur Goldscheider , who exhibited the Chalon-designed Printemps de Bretagne and Eclosion models at the salon. At the world exhibitions in Paris in 1889 and 1900 he received further honorable mentions.

He produced numerous illustrations for the magazines La Vie Parisienne , L'Illustration and Figaro Illustre as well as for books by the writers François Rabelais , Giovanni Boccaccio and Honoré de Balzac . In his paintings, Chalon preferred mythological scenes, which he placed in skillfully arranged landscapes. He also worked as a goldsmith and silversmith, making some sumptuous costumes and occasionally furniture and sculptures in wood and ivory . In 1898 he began to experiment with painted wax figures and enjoyed sculpting. He mainly made smaller objects from bronze such as lights, ink pots, vases and statuettes in Art Nouveau style . Many of his sculptures with female nudes depict femme-fleurs , with women as symbols for flowers.

Works (selection)

painting

Agamemnon , 1887
Circe , 1888
Silence , 1889
Death of Sardanapalus , 1891
Destructive Helena , 1893
Salomé , 1895

Bronzes

Femme Fleur , 1900
La Walkyrie
Jardiniere , 1900
L'amazone
Les filles des Vagues vase , 1899
Perversity, 1910

literature

Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 1976. Volume 2, p. 647. Entry CHALON, Louis (born 1866), Painter, sculptor, illustrator .
Joachim Busse : International handbook of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century. Busse art documentation. Frankfurt 1977. p. 221.
Chalon, Louis . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 18, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22758-2 , p. 107.

Web links

Louis Chalon (French, 1866-1940). In: artnet , with pictures of Chalon's work.
Louis Chalon 1866-1940. In: macklowegallery.com , New York.

Individual evidence

↑ CHALON, Louis (born 1866). Painter, sculptor, illustrator . In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 1976. Volume 2, p. 647.
↑ Louis Chalon (1866-1916). In: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
↑ Notice artiste n ° 7614. Louis Chalon. In: Musée d'Orsay
^ Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnold, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.

Remarks

↑ On various auction house websites such as artnet.com or macklowegallery.com , the year Chalons died as 1940. musee-orsay.fr names 1862 as the year of his birth.

personal data
SURNAME	Chalon, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French painter, illustrator, goldsmith and silversmith and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH	1916

[1] CHALON, Louis (born 1866). Painter, sculptor, illustrator . In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 1976. Volume 2, p. 647.

[2] Louis Chalon (1866-1916). In: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis

[Orsay-4] Notice artiste n ° 7614. Louis Chalon. In: Musée d'Orsay

[5] Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnold, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.

[3] On various auction house websites such as artnet.com or macklowegallery.com , the year Chalons died as 1940. musee-orsay.fr names 1862 as the year of his birth.