Théobald Chartran

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Théobald Chartran

Théobald Chartran (born July 20, 1849 in Besançon ; died July 16, 1907 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French history and portrait painter . Along with John Singer Sargent , James McNeill Whistler and Giovanni Boldini, Chartran was one of the artists who not only gave the high society of their time a face, but also felt they belonged to it.

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Chartran studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a student of Alexandre Cabanel . From 1872 he regularly exhibited his works in the salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts . The works shown there include historical paintings by "Joan of Arc", the "Martyrdom of Saint Saturnin" (1877, for the Church of Champigny-sur-Marne ) or the "Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi" (1883 , made during his time in Rome). From 1881 to 1883 he worked in London and then returned to Paris. Many of his works were created in New York, where he temporarily stayed to portray members of the upper class. Among other things, portraits of the members of the Roosevelt family were created. He also made some decorative works, for example the historical paintings for the upper vestibule of the Sorbonne on which scientists such as Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon ( writing the Traité d'histoire naturelle ), Bernard Palissy (teaching mineralogy), Ambroise Paré (tying off blood vessels ) you can see.

Chartran was awarded the Grand Prize of Rome in 1877 for his painting of the "capture of Rome by the Gauls" .

The pose in the portrait of James Hazen Hyde was an homage to Agnolo Bronzino's "Portrait of a Young Man with a Book" from the 1530s.

  • Agnolo Bronzino: Portrait of a Young Man with a Book , oil on canvas, around 1535–1540

  • Portrait by James Hazen Hyde, oil on canvas, 1901

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Web links

Commons : Théobald Chartran  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Vollmer : Chartran, Théobald . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 415 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ No. 53. Théobald Chartran - William Watts Scherman . In: Newportraits . University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 2000, ISBN 1-58465-018-4 , pp. 114 ff . ( books.google.de - excerpt).
personal data
SURNAME Chartran, Théobald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Besançon
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1907
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine