Charles Emmanuel Bénézit (;
Jersey, 1854 –
Paris, 1920) was a French gallery owner, collector, art historian and editor of the
Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
Biography
Bénézit was born on Jersey, where his father, musician
Charles Bénézit
Charles Bénézit (; 1816 – after 1871) was a French musician, writer, and music teacher.
Biography
Bénézit was a friend and publishing collaborator in Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, G ...
, was exiled. The Channel Islands census records Charles and Euphrasie Bénézit "born in France" and Emmanuel's older sisters already being on the island before Hugo in the 1851 census, and still there after Hugo in the 1871 census. The census records five sisters; Caroline 1842, Marie 1846, Ursule 1948, Adele 1850, Berthe 1859.
His son
Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit (1887–1975) was a painter and art curator. Marguerite Bénézit was his daughter.
[James S. Patty Salvator Rosa in French Literature: From the Bizarre to the Sublime 2005 - "Emmanuel Bénézit (1854–1920) died before the appearance of the third volume of the first edition; even if Marguerite Bénézit was his daughter, it is difficult to "]
References
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1854 births
1920 deaths
French art dealers
Art collectors from Paris
Jersey people