Henri Charles Guérard (26 April 1846,

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- 24 March 1897, Paris) was a French painter, engraver,

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

and print maker.

Biography

He began his studies at the

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Science ...

, majoring in architecture, but slowly turned his attention to painting and engraving. In 1870, he became a student of . The year 1873 saw the first issue of ', a weekly magazine of current affairs and amusements, founded by the writer . Guérard and

Paul Gachet Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (30 July 1828 – 9 January 1909) was a French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise. Gachet was a great supporter of artists and the Impressionist movement ...

were in charge of the illustrations. During this time, he frequented the salon of

Nina de Callias Anne-Marie Gaillard (12 July 1843 – 22 July 1884, in a clinic at Vanves), known as Nina de Villard de Callias, Nina de Callias or Nina de Villard, was a French composer, pianist, writer, and salon hostess. The daughter of a rich Lyon lawyer, aft ...

and became a friend of

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born ...

. Later, together with the actress,

Ellen Andrée Ellen Andrée (born Hélène Marie André; 7 March 1856 – 9 December 1933 Eva Gonzalès Eva Gonzalès (April 19, 1849 – May 6, 1883) was a French Impressionist painter. She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in the nineteenth century, along with Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Berthe Morisot (1841-95), and Mar ...

, one of Manet's students and models. They moved to a farm near

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, where they hosted several well known painters, including

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...

and

Norbert Goeneutte Norbert Goeneutte (23 July 1854 – 9 October 1894) was a French painter, etcher and illustrator; notably for the novel ''La Terre'' by Émile Zola. Biography He was born in Paris into a family that had moved there from Saint-Omer 1850.

, who became a close friend. Two years later, he illustrated ''Les Caravanes de Scaramouche'', by his father-in-law,

Emmanuel Gonzalès Emmanuel Gonzalès (25 October 1815 – 17 October 1887) was a 19th-century French novelist, feuilletonist and playwright. Gonzalès wrote the novel ''Frères de la côte'', which impressed Émile Zola in his childhood, following the praise he m ...

. Eva died in 1883, while giving birth to their son, Jean Raymond, who would become a theatrical painter.Notice par Laurent Monoeuvre, ''Gonzalès-Guérard Eva et Gonzalès-Guérard Jeanne''
en ligne
sur le site ''culture.gouv.fr''. His friend, Manet, died less than two weeks later, leaving him too depressed to work for a long period. He remarried in 1888, to his sister-in-law, , who was also a painter. During this period, he provided illustrations for ''L'Art Japonais'' of

Louis Gonse Louis Gonse (16 November 1846, in Paris – 19 December 1921, in Paris) was an art historian, Editor-in-Chief of the '' Gazette des Beaux-Arts'' and Vice-President of the Commission for Historic Monuments. He was also one of the first European e ...

, published by . Shortly after, he created his own ''Japonisme'', an album of ten etchings, published by . In 1889, together with

Félix Bracquemond Félix Henri Bracquemond (22 May 1833 – 29 October 1914) was a French painter, etcher, and printmaker. He played a key role in the revival of printmaking, encouraging artists such as Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro to use th ...

, he created the , which held exhibits at the Durand-Ruel Gallery. He was named a Knight in the

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in 1893.Base Léonore
cote LH/1218/14. He was an avid collector (what might now be called a "hoarder") of everything from old shoes to lanterns. Many of his etchings are of odd objects and earned him a title: "The Engraver of Curiosities".

Selected works

File:Henri Charles Guérard - Le garroté.jpg, The

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File:Henri-Charles Guérard, Salomon and Cleopatra, c. 1890, NGA 205195.jpg,

Solomon Solomon (; , ),, ; ar, سُلَيْمَان, ', , ; el, Σολομών, ; la, Salomon also called Jedidiah (Hebrew language, Hebrew: , Modern Hebrew, Modern: , Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yăḏīḏăyāh'', "beloved of Yahweh, Yah"), ...

and

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File:Henri Charles Guérard - Elephant and Clown (L'Elephant et le Clown) - 2016.177 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif, Elephant and Clown

References

External links

"Henri-Charles Guérard's Curiosity"
by Madeleine Viljoen @ the

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Selected works

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