The Galerie Charpentier was a gallery of historic and contemporary art in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
, located at 76, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, at the corner with rue Duras.
History
In 1802, the Comte d'Orglandes had a mansion built at 76 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, at the corner of rue Duras (almost opposite the Élysée Palace). In 1821, he sold it to Colonel d'Andlau d'Orvillers. On an unknown date, the hotel became the property of the Mouthier-Dehayin family. The collector Jean Charpentier succeeded this family and, little by little, the public was allowed to visit the collections in a gallery set up in the main courtyard. From 1924, an exhibition on Géricault was organized there by Jean Charpentier.
After the dissolution of the Galeries
Georges Petit
Georges Petit (11 March 1856 – 12 May 1920) was a French art dealer, a key figure in the Paris art world and an important promoter and cultivator of Impressionist artists.
Early career
Petit was the son of François Petit, who founded the ...
company in 1933, prestige auctions took place “in the Hôtel de Jean Charpentier”. Other exhibitions were organized in these places as "
Réalités Nouvelles" in 1939. In 1941, a posthumous exhibition of the works of
Émile Bernard
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his nota ...
was offered to the Parisian public. In 1948, Raymond Nacenta became the owner of the gallery, and new exhibitions and memorable auctions were organized there. According to Myriam Chimènes and Yannick Simon, it was in 1941 that "Raymond Nasenta" owned this gallery, in which the first five
concerts of the Pléiade were held, from February to June 1943.
At the beginning of the 1960s, the city of Paris granted Parisian auctioneers advantageous conditions for the rental of the
Palais Gallièra, which became the fashionable place for prestigious auctions of works of art. Subsequently, the former premises of the Charpentier gallery were the Parisian headquarters of the Fives-Lille company, which demonstrated its mastery of the use of steel by installing particularly standardized offices in place of the gallery.
At the end of the 1980s, the rooms on rue du Faubourg were rented to
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin (, , ), born Pietro Costante Cardino (2 July 1922 – 29 December 2020), was an Italian-born naturalised-French fashion designer. He is known for what were his avant-garde style and Space Age designs. He preferred geometric sha ...
, who set up a restaurant there.
Established in Paris since 1967, the auction house
Sotheby's
Sotheby's () is a British-founded American multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City. It is one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewellery, and collectibles. It has 80 locations in 40 countries, an ...
chose this building in 1988 to set up its Parisian offices.
References
Buildings and structures in the 8th arrondissement of Paris
Charpentier
Charpentier () is the French language, French word for "carpenter", and it is also a French surname; a variant spelling is Carpentier. In English, the equivalent word and name is "Carpenter (surname), Carpenter"; in German, "Zimmermann (disambigua ...
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