Hippolyte de la Charlerie (1827–1869) was a Belgian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

and

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...

Life and work

De la Charlerie was born in

Mons Mons (; German and nl, Bergen, ; Walloon and pcd, Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium. Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut in the 12th century. T ...

. He studied art at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (1843–51) and with

Théodore Baron Théodore Baron (19 August 1840, Ixelles - 4 September 1899, Saint-Servais) was a Belgian landscape painter in the Realistic style. Biography He was initially trained in the Academic style; first by Hippolyte de la Charlerie in Brussels, the ...

. He was a cofounder of the Atelier Saint-Luc at Brussels, but spent much of his time in Paris, where he established himself as an illustrator for collectors' editions of books. Among his engravings are scenes of the French Revolution, which he also created for ''La Révolution Française'' (1862) by M.J.G.D Armengaud. He is also noted for a painting of the 17th-century composer and musician

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ...

which was well received at the Salon of Paris in 1869. Lully is shown as a boy of around twelve years old playing his violin in the kitchen of the Duchesse de Montpensier, his patroness. In 1868, de la Charlerie was one of the founding members of the

avant-gardist The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or 'vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, Wikt:radical#Adjective, radical, or unorthodox with respect to The arts, art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Av ...

Société Libre des Beaux-Arts The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts ("Free Society of Fine Arts") was an organization formed in 1868 by Belgian artists to react against academicism and to advance Realist painting and artistic freedom. Based in Brussels, the society was active un ...

, but died only a year later in Ixelles, a fashionable suburb of Brussels favored by artists. When some of his smaller canvases were part of a retrospective exhibition of Belgian art in 1905,

Octave Maus Octave Maus (12 June 1856 – 26 November 1919) was a Belgian art critic, writer and lawyer. Maus worked with fellow writer/lawyer Edmond Picard, and they together with Victor Arnould and Eugène Robert founded the weekly '' L'Art moderne'' ...

writing in '' L'Art Moderne'' praised him among unjustly neglected painters whose works evidenced freshness and sincerity, the latter quality being one of the Société's ideals. His portraits have been described as having an "austere simplicity," using dark and chilly tonalities that emphasize the model's immobility.

References

* P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 184.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:De la Charlerie, Hippolyte Belgian illustrators 1827 births 1869 deaths People from Mons 19th-century Belgian painters 19th-century Belgian male artists Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts alumni