Charles Gleyre

[Swiss Academic Painter, 1808-1874]

• Relationships:	Studied under Louis Hersent. Gleyre's many Students included Gerome, Jean-Louis Hamon, Lecomte du Nouy, Edward Poynter, Claude Monet, Renoir, Frederic Bazille, Daniel Ridgway Knight, Frank B. Mayer and James McNeill Whistler.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Charles Gleyre in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Head of Omphale, ca.1863

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)

Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
3 paintings online

The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas

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Pictures from Image Archives:

Charles Gleyre in the Art Renewal Center

Charles Gleyre in the Web Gallery of Art

Wikimedia Commons Image Database

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)

Other Web Sites:

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Orientalist Art of the Nineteenth Century
Jewish Woman, Smyrna, 183

Orientalist Art of the Nineteenth Century
Three Fellahs, 1835

Orientalist Art of the Nineteenth Century
Angelica, 1834

Articles:

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

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Lost Illusions, or Evening, before 1843

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