Alexandre Charpentier Rare Group Of Bronze Art Nouveau Plaques Circa.1890

Alexandre Charpentier Rare Group Of Bronze Art Nouveau Plaques Circa.1890Alexandre Charpentier 1856 1909. French School 19th. Century. A very rare group of three cast bronze art nouveau plaques circa. 1890. Each individually cast in shallow relief depicting the head and shoulders of a young woman singing, playing chess and the violin. Cast with artist's monogram and signature. Set into their original oak stands with scroll motifs (these also designed by Charpentier). 14. 3 x 7. 7 cms. 26 x 8. 2 cms on stand. Some slight

Sharples was a successful portrait painter mainly in pastels

with generalised rustic scenery

Excellent impression

In carved 18th

Century Giltwood Sharples frame

He also taught "The Class of Perfection" in the school and worked with many Mariinsky dancers

Depicting figures in a romanticised landscape

A Proof impression before titles

Sepia ink and wash on buff paper laid on to 19th

She is buried in the Churchyard of St George The Martyr Newbold Pacey Warwickshire

The Art Journal critic James Dafforne described him in 1892 as ‘one of the most popular of our figure-painters in water-colours’

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