Henri-Georges Charrier artwork • painting • previously for sale Paris in autumn
Henri-Georges Charrier
Parijs 1859-1950
1859-1950
Paris in autumn
oil on painter's board 28.7 x 22.5 cm, signed l.l. and dated '06
This painting was previously for sale.
Henri Charrier received his first painting lessons from his father, the sculptor Edouard Charrier. Already at the age of 18 he settled in a large studio near the Parc Montsouris in Paris and signed up for painting lessons with Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921). In his early work he imitates this master, both in his use of colour and in his subjects: posed, large history pieces that he submits to the annual Paris Salon. From 1891 he starts painting directly from nature and forms with a number of friends a painting group that would later be called the Crozant School. Charrier has painted several French churches with monumental murals.