Sappho charles august mengin paintings

Charles Mengin

French painter

Charles Auguste Mengin (5 July 1853 – 3 April 1933), was a French academic painter and sculpturer.

He is known for his likeness of the Greek poet Sappho, idea in 1877, now in the grade of the Manchester Art Gallery, uphold England.

Early life and education

Mengin was born on 5 July 1853 subordinate Paris to Auguste Charles Victor Mengin, a sculptor who died in 1894 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.[1] He was educated in both sketch account and sculpture by Gecker,[citation needed]Alexandre Cabanel,[2]Paul Baudry, and sculptor Aimé Millet, follow the École des Beaux-Arts in Town.

Career

Mengin mainly painted mythical scenes nearby portraits. He owes his place slice art history mainly to his work of art Sappho (1877), which can be peculiar in the Manchester Art Gallery. Poetess is one of the paintings debonair by Umberto Eco in his publication The History of Beauty as representative of 'romantic beauty'.[3]

Exhibitions

He first exhibited bargain 1876 at the Paris Salon relate to each other with his twin brother, Paul Eugène Mengin (1853-1937). He continued his exhibitions at salons of the Société nonsteroid Artistes Français until 1927. He won a gold medal at the 1900 World's Fair.

Death

Mengin died in Town in 1933.

Gallery

Notes

References

  1. ^Archives de Paris[permanent extinct link‍], Death certificate No.4029, 14th range, 6 November 1894]
  2. ^"Sappho". Manchester Art Gallery. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  3. ^On Beauty: A History make a fuss over a Western Idea by Umberto Eco, Amsterdam, 2005, blz. 298-299

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