Pierre-Gérard Carrier-Belleuse (28 January 1851 in

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– 29 January 1932 in Paris) was a French painter.

Biography

His first studies were with his father, the sculptor

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. Later he studied with

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and Pierre Victor Galland at the

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/ref> He exhibited at the Salon (Paris), Salon in 1875 and won a silver medal at the

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. He also produced drawings and lithographs for Le Figaro Illustré. Best known for his ballet scenes and pastels, he also did landscapes, portraits and

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works. Most of his paintings are in private collections. Between 1914 and 1916, he and proposed, planned and supervised the creation of the ''

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'', which was the world's largest painting (45 ft. high and 402 ft. in circumference) containing almost 5,000 portraits of notable French and Allied wartime figures, mostly sketched from life. Twenty artists played a major role in its production, although many more made contributions. It was exhibited in a specially constructed display building (which was demolished in 1960) next to the

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. Later, it made its way to the United States, and reconfigured portions of it may now be seen in the National World War I Museum at the

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.National WWI Museum at the Liberty Memorial
/ref> It was his second such work, following the much smaller ''Panorama de Notre-Dame de Lourdes'' from 1881. The painter Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse was Carrier-Belleuse's brother.

Selected paintings

File:Carrierbelleuse3.jpg, ''Ballet Preparation'' (c.1900) File:Carrier Belleuse Pierre Before the Ballet 1896.jpg, ''Before the Ballet'' (1896) File:Carrierbelleuse4.jpg, ''Young Lady Adjusting her Corset'' (1893) File:Carrier Belleuse Pierre The Ballet Lesson.jpg, ''The First Pose'' (1900) File:PierreCarrierBelleuseHighRes.jpg, ''A Ballerina'' (c.1900) File:La frileuse - Pierre Carrier-Belleuse.jpg, ''La frileuse'' (1894)

References

External links

Short biography and photograph
from ''Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs...'', Sociétés de Beaux-Arts, (1897) @

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Biography

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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