Who was CHARPENTIER, ALEXANDRE LOUIS MARIE ?

CHARPENTIER, ALEXANDRE LOUIS MARIE (French). Contemporary Sculptor, and Medallist, born in Paris; pupil of M. Ponscarme. Since 1874, he has exhibited a number of medallions at the annual Paris Salons : Portrait of Mme X*** ; — Mlle J***; — M. Maisonneuve; — M. Mather ; — M. Jacob; — Mme Z. Enaud ; — Mme J*** ; — M. Hollande ; — M. Rivet ; — M. Hutin ; — Mme Amélie B***. ; — Mme Juliette B*** ; — Alfred Poussin ; — Mlle Lina B***; — Painting (Plaquette); — Maid holding necklace; — Maid holding flower; — Music; — Singing; — Faun; — Bacchante; — Admission ticket to the Society of the " Libre Esthétique " of Brussels; — Jean et Pierre; — Edmond de Goncourt; — Camille Pissarro ; — Drawing; — Building of the Eiffel Tower; — Gaul; — Dr Ernest Besnier; — Imprimerie Lemercier; — L'Edition d'Art ; — Society of Agriculture, Sciences and Arts of Douai; — Maternity; — Napoléon raconté par l'image ; — Dr Pierre Carl Potain ; — Rodolphe Darzens; — Albert Capré ; — Octave Mans, 1899; — Painting (illustrated) ; — Various studies from life (reproduced on PI. XVI, of Roger Marx, Médailleurs contemporains en France et á l'étranger, 1901); — Medal of the Soctété des Amis de la Médaille francaise ; — Thérése ; — Maternité ; — National Society of Fine Arts, 1890 : — L'Estampe originale ; — Les Maîtres de l'Affiche; — Société symphonique, 1896; — Federation of Belgian Advocates; — Tombstone; — Chasing; — Society of Bibliophiles (with portrait of the due d'Aumale); — Portrait-plaquette of M. de Saintignon, maître de forges; — Valére Mabille; — Pierre Larousse, &c. M. Alexandre Charpentier's portrait of Edmond de Goncourt, says M. Henri Frantz in the Magazine of Art, June 1899, p. 37, is also excellent, true in feeling, and very life-like ; we here find the Goncourt we knew in his later years. " In connection with the same artist, M. R. Marx writes : « Dans l'?uvre, si riche, de ce naturiste ardent et convaincu, plutôt que des groupements de personnagesou des allegories vous rencontrerez des notations véridiques d'attitudes. de gestes, de mouvements, de physionomies, qui savent au mieux incarner le sentiment et éveiller l'idée. A Pierre Roche et á Alexandre Charpentier revient par surcroît d'avoir créé une estampe de médailleur oú le papier, épousant les formes du relief, se modéle; se gaufre et se teinte; enfin leurs deux noms se retrouvent avec ceux de Roty, Levillain, Bottée, Heller, Vernier, Mouchon, Henry Nocq, sur la liste glorieuse des médailleurs qui ont secondé et hâté, par leur concours, le relévement et le progrés de l'orfevrerie, de l'ameublement, de la reliure, de tous les arts du décor. » One of his works, the Zola medal (illustrated), was presented to the great novelist as a recognition of his brilliant services in the cause of justice during the Dreyfus agitation in France. At the Exhibition of the Société nationale des Arts, Paris, 1899, M. Charpentier exhibited the following works : M. Carré; — Mme Sévérine; — Mlle Henriot; — M. C. Meunier; — and M. E. Zola. All these fine Portrait-medals have been greatly admired ; they remind one of the beautiful Florentine productions of the XVth century. The artist's bronze groups, " Les Trois Parques" illustrated in Art et Décoration (Aug. 1899) and " La Fuite de l'Heure " deserve special mention for their exceptional artistic merit and grandeur of conception. It is in his wonderful little bas-reliefs that M. Alexandre Charpentier has almost in a bound touched the summit of artistic excellence, an excellence marked by a spirit and sympathy altogether unique, even in the glory of artistic France. He stands quite apart from his contemporaries, as well by reason of his high craftsmanship as for the rare and lofty nature of his muse. His subject matter he gathers from the simple life about him, but the fine note he touches is the effect of his own masterly interpretation. Hid from meaner eyes, that which he brings to light is so simple and direct, so sympathetic, that we feel at once in harmony both with the art and nature it displays. Rare as this note is, it is a human note which animates and charms his public. "As artist, sculptor, one of the first medallists of France, craftsman, decorator, designer, and worker in wood, M. Charpentier leads the Renaissance in fine and applied art. At once a practical man and a dreamer, he is the moulder of his own fancies, an inventor, with an energy altogether refreshing in our old-grown world. He is radical in spirit, and a pioneer, and of course belongs to the New Salon, the Salon of Puvis de Chavannes, of Rodin, of Dalou. " (G. Borglum, Alexandre Charpentier, The Artist, 1901.) Bibliography. — Roger Marx, Les Médailleurs francais, Paris, 1897. — Ibid., Les Médailleurs francais contemporains, Paris, 1898. — L. Bénédite, Catalogue du Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 1896. — The Studio, 1898. — Dr H. J. de Dompierre de Chaufepié, Les Médailles et Plaquettes modernes, Harlem, 1899. — Art et Décoration, 1899.

Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904

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