Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin (1797 in
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– 1883 in
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painter, noted for his Orientalist works.
Life and career
The son of a couple of freeholders, Jean Callande and Gabrielle Lemonnier, Charles-Émile Callande de Champmartin began exhibiting at the Salon in 1819. He owes his reputation to his many portraits and religious paintings, treated with a brush of romantic sensitivity. He was one of the early painters to travel to the Middle East and produce paintings with Orientalist themes. His is known for his numerous portraits, historical and religious paintings and Orientalist works, all of which were very popular during his lifetime.
He was a friend and pupil of
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( ; ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French people, French Romanticism, Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: ...
, of whom he made a portrait (1840), now preserved in Paris at the Musée Carnavalet. A portrait of Eugène Sue is in the Magnin museum in Dijon with three other paintings by the same author. Five paintings are at the Louvre Museum in Paris and four others at the National Museum of the Castles of Versailles and Trianon, including a portrait of Marshal Clausel (1835).
[Charles Gabet, ''Dictionnaire des artistes de l'école française au XIXe siècle,'' Paris, 1831, p. 129.]
Select list of paintings
* ''Massacre of the Janissaries'', 1827 (Rochefort Museum, Rochefort, France)
* ''Portrait of Eugene Sue,'' oil on canvas
* ''The Sacrifice of Abraham''
* ''Dog keeping a dead rabbit''
* ''Portrait of lady in flower cap''
* ''Portrait of Juliette Drouet as a woman of Smyrna,'' 1827.
* ''Portrait of Paul-Émile Botta, orientalist,'' 1840, oil on canvas, now in the Louvre
Gallery
File:Callande de champmartin portrait of delacroix c 1840 musee carnavalet.jpg, ''Portrait of Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( ; ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting ...
'', c. 1840
File:Champmartin-harem.jpg, ''Harem in Tripoli''
File:Achille-Jacques Fédel (2).JPG, ''Portrait of Jacques Fédel''
File:Maison de Victor Hugo Juliette Drouet Champmartin 27122012.jpg, ''Portrait of Juliette Drouet''
See also
*
List of Orientalist artists
This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalism#Orientalist art, Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subj ...
*
Orientalism
In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle ...
References
Further reading
* Flemming Friborg, ''Catalogue French Painting in the 19th Century'' NY, Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1994
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1797 births
1883 deaths
19th-century French painters
French male painters
French Orientalist painters
19th-century French male artists