Pierre Charles Comte
Pierre Charles Comte (born April 23, 1823 in Lyon , † November 30, 1895 in Fontainebleau ) was a French painter .
life and work
Pierre Charles Comte was first from 1840 to 1842 a student of Claude Bonnefond at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and later a student of Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury in Paris . Like Robert-Fleury, he devoted himself to the historical genre painting and in 1847 exhibited a Lady Jane Gray who, with its excellent composition, correct drawing and lively characteristics, aroused expectations that he later fulfilled in the paintings of Henry III. Encounter with the Duke of Guise (1855, in Luxembourg), Joan of Arc at the coronation of Charles VII (1861, Museum in Reims) and in Eleonore von Este, widow of the Duke of Guise, who makes her son Heinrich swear to avenge his murdered father (1864, Museum in Lyon).
Comte's other pictures include:
- Visit of Francis I and the Duchess of Étampes to Benvenuto Cellini , 1857
- Charles IX urged by his mother to decide the blood wedding
- Charles V's last visit to Ghent Castle after his renunciation of the throne , 1866
- Gypsies in front of the sick Louis XI. , 1869
- Catherine de Medici in Chaumont Castle
- Marie Touchet , 1870
- The legend of the poisoned gloves of Queen Joan of Navarre , the mother of Henry IV.
- Don Quixote's niece , 1877
- Florentine nobles see Dante , 1883
literature
- Pierre Charles Comte . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 4, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 234.
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| SURNAME | Comte, Pierre Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1895 |
| Place of death | Fontainebleau |